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| The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. |
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| The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique |
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| The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. |
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| The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. |
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| The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. |
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| The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. |
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| The waste basket is the writer's best friend. |
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| There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. |
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| There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. |
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| They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. |
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| We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice. |
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| We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. |
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| What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. |
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| Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year. |
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| When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. |
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