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"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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"Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss."
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"Don't play on safe, you must learn few rules and the other is just lessons."
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"Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable."
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"I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"Where there is a risk, there is a wealth."
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"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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"As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch....The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way."
Politics
"That is her style of beauty."
Art
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
Art
"When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends."
Society
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
War
"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."
Culture
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
Being
"...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain."
Emotion
"I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape."
Creativity
"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."
Worth
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