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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

About Big Faith Got
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Always Children Demand Escape
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Always Down Just Kids
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Man Admire Woman Listen to
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Have yet Man Direction Think
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Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Great drama Souvenir Master
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism Appraising Own value
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Like everybody Seem Catching colds
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Impersonal criticism Fight Marriage Successful
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The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Dramatic critic Prejudice Believe Human life
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

Notion Man grows Illusions True
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Ready way Friend Lend Money
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Distinguished Failure Trivially Flag
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
Bachelors Freedom Freer Greater slave
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A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

Broken heart Monument Love Fulfillment
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

Sweetest memory Have done Bitterest
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

A poet Alchemist Transmutes Regarding human
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Wife Compromise Illusion Sweetheart
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Man Woman Mood Understand
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
Pretty girl Stage Professional Undertakers
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Cynicism Success Penetrating Valid
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I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Many married Men Happily Fall down
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Windows Chandeliers Illuminates Enveloping darkness
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Politics Diversion Trivial men Important
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Speak Morals Art Legislature
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations

Always Around Brought Happiness
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Trusted Greater compliment Loved
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Actions Cannot Care Forming
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Work Required Sacred idleness
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

Her heart Fallen sides Inexhaustible fountain
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Man finds Want God Gives
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Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Seeing Believing
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Bad Experience Good Good Judgment
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
Try Brave
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Better Deadline Inspiration Negative
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Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Afflliction Father wills Friend Frowns
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Beast Know Nearer Man
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Logical Men Place Ride
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

American Best Every Form
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Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God Leaves Disputing
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Art Entertainment Married Moral
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It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Loving Being Nearest soul
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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Car Cliff Drives Like
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All that is not God is death.

God Death
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Bad Happiness Keys Memory
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Action Either Every Strong
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Grow Somewhere Find Needful
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