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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Accurate Commonly Cynicism Got
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Generally I Avoid Temptation
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Never Loved Another Person
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.

When Woman Go Wrong
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Between Difference Else Everybody
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

If Asked For Cup
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Whenever I'm Caught Between
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Children Example Hold Lesson
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Say What You Want
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Try Anything Once Twice
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

When Choosing Between Two
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Always Believes Bible Convinced
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Too Much Good Thing
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

About Advice Anything He
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Ten Men Waiting The
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Never Worry About Diets
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Matter Poor Poverty Questions
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Don't Marry Man Reform
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Conversation Her Lacks Power
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

One Two Four Five
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Affairs Before Breath Does
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The score never interested me, only the game.

The Score Never Interested
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Animals Eat Friends
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love Isn't An Emotion
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Alcohol Anesthesia Endure Life
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Woman I'm Very Words
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

Didn't Discover Curves Only
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It takes two to get one in trouble.

Takes Two Get One
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Appointment Corrupt Democracy Election
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Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

Personally Like Two Types
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

No Model Lady Just
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Cultivate Your Curves They
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I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Forces Threat Nation Great
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Forms Opinion Support Public
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Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Afraid Die Fit Live
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

Naive Read Incessantly People
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Nature Believe
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Think History I
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
Critics Cry Finest Full
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.
Emotional Difficulties Mother Singing
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood,

Misunderstood Song Written Simone
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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