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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
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I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.
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I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
