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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

In this respect I suppose I’m the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don’t.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

One of Brando’s problems is that he can’t have a conversation with anyone.

I’ve got a lot of ham in me.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I’m very romantic.