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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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