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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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"When in doubt, do it."
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"Why did you give up hope?"
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"I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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"When in doubt, sing loud."
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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."
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"When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public."
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"A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera."
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"We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure."
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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
Reading

"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."
Creativity

"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
Want

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
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