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• No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
• For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
• My father was often angry when I was most like him.
• Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
• The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
• Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident…
• Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
• The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous…
• Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some…
• Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the…
• Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
• I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

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