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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Appetite Axiomatic Gratification People Revolt Shameless Share Take Witness
You can’t be a person and a lady. If you’re a person, you can open the damned door yourself.
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Dammed Door Lady Open Person Yourself
If I were God – and I never understand why I’m not – I should say, “Shop around, I don’t think you’ll find a better bargain than here.”
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Around Bargain Better Find God Shop Should Think Understand
Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.
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Consist Disease Health Neighbour One Same
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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Benigm Brutal Country Friendly Hostile People System
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?
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Altruistically Basic Block Building Good Lie Manner Mutual Ofcourse People
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Appear Art Change Choice Effect Human Inevitable Instrument Make Matter Politics Social Wise
I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Being Force Have Imagine Keep never Orbit Planet Revolve Simple Stop Sudden
Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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Deliberate Fashion Idiom Instead Maintain Personality Spontaneously Style
I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Act Meant Really Say Them Word Would
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.
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Adolescence Drug Exhibitions Hook Kill Massive Novice Take
I’ve never not been famous.
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Been Famous never
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Change Get Involve never Some Want You
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
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Difficult Done Find Idea Inflammatory Religious Terrifying Understand Wany
You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Come End Have Interview Personality Stop
The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Always Conform Problem Rebel Same Time Young

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