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| A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out |
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| A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study |
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| A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. |
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| A man is only as good as what he loves |
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| A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. |
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| All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. |
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| As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. |
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| California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. |
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| Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. |
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| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
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| Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. |
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| Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. |
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| I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." |
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| I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture |
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| I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. |
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