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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out
Worth it Money Walks out
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Opinion Two things Realistic Sexual act
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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Intolerable things Life Cold coffee Lukewarm champagne
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Day Dish Every Lives
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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Mean Never Oath People
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Collection Platitudes Save Wisdom
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Green Hardship Pine Stays
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Echoes Education Controlled Manufactory
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age Character Construct Does
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Bids Consolation Corner Create
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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Close Eye Find Friend
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Avoid Body Causes Everything
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Discovers Found Friends He
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Better Fool Had Handle
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

All Anything Cease Neighbors
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Desired Dying Living Sublimity
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

About Believe Cheerful Considerable
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Authority Civic Distrust Duty
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Advertising Ideals Nation Tell
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I’m a disciplinarian, I don’t condone gossip and I don’t suffer fools easily

Disciplinarian Condone Gossip Fools
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If you think badly of people, bad things happen to you.
Think Badly Bad things Happen
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I like to learn, I’m open to sensible criticism, and I have a lot of respect for people with principles

Learn Sensible Criticism Respect
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Opinions are like noses, we are all entitled to one.

Opinions Noses Like Entitled
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Against Blunder Former However
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Angry Daily Earnest Falling
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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Another Death Dozen Man
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Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Surrounded Troops Wandering Were
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Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Aroused Between Cry Enemy
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Entitled Your opinion Informed opinion Ignorant
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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The ability Dream My responsibility Burden
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid

Mind Thinking Stupid
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

World Turning Imbeciles
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You must never be afraid to go there.
Must never Afraid
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Widespread illiteracy Functional People stupid
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They minute people fall in love they become liars.

Minute people Fall Love Liars
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Day job Money Please yourself
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I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Picture Mind Dollars Think
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.

Dismaying aspect Excellence Living World
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Love Nothing Sex misspelled
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Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.

Relationship In love Intersection Life
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The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

City lay Vaulting sky Clouds
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She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

She thinks Killed Great sweep Mud
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They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can’t be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?

Stories Friends Gone Angry about
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There are some people who just shouldn't be allowed to fool around with love.

Some people Allowed Love
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