Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
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Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
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I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
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