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• A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.…
• It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings.…
• We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
• Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.
• The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
• I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews…
• The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever…
• I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.…
• I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
• What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any…
• Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the…

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