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"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes."
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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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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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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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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard."
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"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
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"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life."
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"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
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"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."
Life

"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
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"If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
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