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

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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Fear of Flying (1973)

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