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Ten Random Quotes

"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
Alice James

"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
Simone Weil

"I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing."
Oded Fehr

"The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers."
Gail Godwin

"Good talkers are only found in Paris."
Francois Villon

"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent."
Esther B. Fein

"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother."
G. Norman Collie

"Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life."
Agnes Martin

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
Henry Fielding

"I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls."
Kate Beckinsale

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