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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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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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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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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
Fiction
"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
Wisdom
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
Wisdom
"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."
People
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
Ego
"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
Nothing
"I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."
Mind
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
Life
"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
Power
"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
Love
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