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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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Personal Development
"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common."
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"Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism 'thinking' (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, 'with me' or 'against me, ' and most of the time you'll be wrong."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education
"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
Truth
"I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with - which, unfortunately, is rarely the case-tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And--most important-nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker."
Knowledge
"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas."
Belief
"Who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody."
Death
"As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."
Privacy
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
Critique
"I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy."
Fulfillment
"I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell- I don't know why exactly."
Alienation
"One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?"
Interdependence
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