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Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Everybody You Act Breath
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

Cruel Meaning
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Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Hope Premises Accidents Word
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Souls Cry Awaken Heaven
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Easy Love People Memory
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Activity Creative Cares Right
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us

Children Creatures Mirrors Human
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Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Laws Ghosts Country Earth
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In general the churches ... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola: they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Churches Relation God Thirst
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Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.

Part Human Verge Disgrace
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The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare.

Universe Machine By-products Death
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That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God

Love Disaster Guilt God
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Happiness Sacrifices Losses Betrayals
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We are most alive when we're in love.

Alive Love
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Love Betrayal Life Armed
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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

History Live Memory Decline
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Celebrity Mask Eats Face
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

Suspect Moment Thief
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Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

Life Nothing Obsessed
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Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Nothing Impotent Unread Library
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Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

Wealth Buying Book Price tag
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Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field

Keep up Causing Chaos Field
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Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth

Something True Facts Truth
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To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

Beauty Looks Forget Face
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Contemporary art hates you.

Contemporary Art Hates
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True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

True success Life Career Jerks
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You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Impossible Crime Reading Book
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My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Idea Person Life Career
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It wasn't until I started reading ... that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Reading Happy Life Like
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To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

Understand Bad Taste Good
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If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

Someone Laugh First step Winning
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I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

Pride Fact Work Value
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I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

Learned People Work Praise
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Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Technique Nothing Failed Style
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No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

Comedy Good Long Joke
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance

Censor Comfort Ignorance
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The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.

Internet World Notes Classroom
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Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

Love Competence Rare Age
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In whose delusional mind is democracy made better by letting wealthier people control more of it?

Mind Democracy Wealthier People
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Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Religion People Hope World
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Values Tested Hobbies
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Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

Religions War Human life People
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The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Bias Media Conflict Laziness
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You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Idealism Aims Realize Perfect
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The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Science Rely Faith
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Politicans are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

Politics Idea War Social-security
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When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

You Powerful Need Petty
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College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

College Complete Life Experience
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