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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public…
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's…
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in…
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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how…
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we…
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Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language,…
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may…
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If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer…
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He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
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It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.
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Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though…
— Lev Grossman
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When you think you are in a wrong place at a wrong time with wrong people, just ask God why? Then the…
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