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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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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

According Aches Any Because
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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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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Hero Me Show Tragedy
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Because Say Something Want
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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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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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

Appreciated Husband Little Pitied
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Art Away Betray Charm
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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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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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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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He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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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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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Appointments Bipartisan Committee Making
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Anything Bit Even Feign
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Always Any Complete Complete Freedom
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Arm Blood Cinema Cut
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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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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
After Before Breakfast Ends
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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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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Bad Good Heart Memory
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