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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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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Being Cannot Important Important Things
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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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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Career Decent Ever Founded
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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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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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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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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Cease Interest Persons Shock
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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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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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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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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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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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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alive Bring Disadvantages Enough
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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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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honour Long Prevails
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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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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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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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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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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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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Back Because Every Faith
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Considered Myself Novels Really
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Always Basically Because Good
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Am I Am Man Money
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Considered Good Happy I Think
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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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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Ever Free Interpretation Less
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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 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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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
About Anything Delusional Life
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