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| If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. |
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| If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. |
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| In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries |
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| In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California |
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| No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. |
| Chicago |
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| People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. |
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| Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it -- they should, because they put it all in beforehand. |
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| reality comes from giving an account of yourself. (Augie March) |
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| She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand |
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| Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. |
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| There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. |
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| There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. |
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| There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thinking we have to do and all the judgments we have to make. It's the price of freedom: make the judgments, make the mental calls, |
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| There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. |
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| We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. |
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| What is art but a way of seeing? |
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| When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. |
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| Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. |
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| With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. |
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| You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. |
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