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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Employs He His How
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Blessings Death Greatest Human
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Ball Free Game Itself
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Become Facts Legends Make
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Chiefly Good Good Life Life
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Becomes Equal His Made
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Corners Easy Escapes Fuss
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Divine Immortal Men Righteous
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Both Fight Groups Images
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Bait Beauty Delight His
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Actually Better Blowing Change
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Bad Bad One Become Get
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Anywhere Beautiful Big Countryside
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Arts Communication Four Much
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Always Work Being Belong
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I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

Always Begin Myself Recognize
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Friends Had Health High
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Accord Apply Death Directly
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The world is a very abnormal place.

Abnormal Place Very World
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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We cannot attain the sanity that we seek by being quiet or nonchalant about our state of affair.

Sanity Seek Nonchalant State
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Common Common Denominator Denominator Equalizer
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Meaning Measure Modern
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Alone Concept Doom Invented
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Concentrate Essential Important Most
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Advice Both Either Friendly
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Boredom Despairing Evil Oneself
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
His Made Man Only
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Gives Love Love Is Takes
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