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"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
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Personal Development
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
Finance
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
Sentimentality
"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
Man
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."
Fact
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
Influence
"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."
Ability
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
Reading
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."
God
"Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it."
Dance
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
Evil
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