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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering
"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People
"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
Genius
"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
Difficulty
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship
"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
History
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Knowledge
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
People
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