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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."

"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own."
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"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."

"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."

"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
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