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"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."
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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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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."
Life
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."
Decision-Making
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
Behavior
"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."
People
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
Bureaucracy
"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."
Age
"In violence, we forget who we are."
Violence
"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
Art
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Writing
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
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