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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

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This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?

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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 11th, 1922

Died: April 11th, 2007

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