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“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
Source : "The Heart of Things".
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“The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.”
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“Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”
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“My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.”
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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
Source : "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.
