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To break the pentameter, that was the first heave


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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.



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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.



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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.



As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.



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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.



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All great art is born of the metropolis.



'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!



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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.





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I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.



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In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.



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I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.



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