Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

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