"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

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"I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be."

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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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

People, Pleasure, Promises

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."

Creation, Criticism

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

Beauty, Emotion

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."

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"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."

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