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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Always Anybody Between Came
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Considers Crime Going Happy
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Art Controlling Environment Politics
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Heaven Interesting Interesting People Missing
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Alone Best Deeply Had
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Caught Closed Crime Everybody
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Bad Christian Find Made
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Around Bummer Hooked Like
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Clear Despite Efforts Make
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Dies Freedom Something Unless
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art Life Proper Task
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
Reason Tomorrow Weirdness Why
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Another Ignorance Just Paranoia
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Another Each Gets His
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Allowed American Been Corrupt
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Boldly Indignant Lies Man
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Been Ever Here Journalism
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Cause Effect Ends Journalism
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Between Difference Insane Lock
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Ability First-Rate Function Hold
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Ability Only Over Persist
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Ability Effect Genius Mind
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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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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Awe-Inspiring Curious Display Drunk
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Any Did Forties Friends
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Cards Carefully Girl Great
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Chemical Dream Everybody Form
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy Equivalent Observation Thinking
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Money is a kind of poetry.

Kind Money Poetry
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Because Bottom Boy Echoes
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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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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination Man Nature Over
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Art Comparison Intolerance Itself
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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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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

About Being Danger Depressing
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ability Beyond Despite Good
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