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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Discipline Either Else Natural
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Anything Big Just Man
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

About Been Drunk Library
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

American American Women Bewildered Faces
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Artifice Extent Imagination Life
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bore Complicated Else Everything
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

About Acute Deal Egotism
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Begin Country End Few
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

After Except Life Love
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art Crazy Insane Law
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

Art Break Bringing Cultural
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

Although Another Beginnings Brooklyn
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Best Everything Evil Necessary
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Brought Continue Did Ever
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Girl Like Little Played
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Alone Anticipation Calamity Future
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Blind Country Curiosity Goes
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Been Countries Destruction Development
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

Find First First Things Go
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Bad Good Husband Man
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Bad Good Heart Memory
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Happens How Life Matters
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Arrived Because Been Day
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Best Could Leaf Left
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

About Asked Been Cholera
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I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

Crave Grips Hits Idea
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I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

All My Heart Day Die Ever
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I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

Alive American American Dream Band
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

Clothing Colors Express Extension
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