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When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world wa

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. – Colin Wilson

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

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Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means youre being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. – Colin Wilson

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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that werent relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. – Walter Isaacson

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Romantic

The thing you cant let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isnt a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life. – Michael Patrick King

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I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that youre chasing along with romantic comedy. – James L. Brooks

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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. – Morgan Freeman

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‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. – Benjamin Franklin

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My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and Id play em over and over. – Clint Eastwood

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I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMWs mostly – for myself and my family. – Tom Felton

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