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

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

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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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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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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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Chemical Dream Everybody Form
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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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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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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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Looks Man Poet Way
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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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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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There might be some serious fun in politics.
Fun Might Politics Serious
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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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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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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Career Decent Ever Founded
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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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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Bluff Charming Depths Heads
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Against Hope Hopes Last
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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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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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arthritis Connection Different Discouragement
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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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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

Audience Back Become Culture
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Condemns He Man Ready
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Children Doll Girl Her
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Freedom Guaranteed Only Own
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Confuse Everywhere News Newspapers
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Consists Fall Getting Just
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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