Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.Thornton Wilder
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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