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“Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.”
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“... trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life — proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.”
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“People having religions is an insult to the universe.”
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“... television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that — have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology — I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.”
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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
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“To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn't blind, it's visionary.”
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“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”
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“... if I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.”