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"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
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"Injustice in the end produces independence."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"
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"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
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"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."
Old


"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
Harm


"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."
Heart


"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
Time


"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
Society


"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Nation


"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
Art


"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."
Love


"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
Film


"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
Nation
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