I just didn't want to shoot other people.
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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.
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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
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