I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway … - Ian Mcewan

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No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Ian Mcewan

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

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You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

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Not being boring is quite a challenge.

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Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. . . . If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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True friends don't hold us back spiritually or pull us down when we're trying to rise and progress. True friends protect us. True friends help us be better than we would be on our own.

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Marcus Aurelius

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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