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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."

"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."

"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
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