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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."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"A play visibly represents pure existing."
Art
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
Life
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
Gratitude
"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
Literature
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
Faith
"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness."
Beauty
"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
People
"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."
Love
"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
Love
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
Advice
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