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...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

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I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

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Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will.

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

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