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My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
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When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
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A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.
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In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't.
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Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.
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Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.
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When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
