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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."
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"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
Nothing
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
People
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
Perception
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."
Bible
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
Genius
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
Man
"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."
Knowledge
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
Success
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
Experience
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
War
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