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"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
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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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"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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"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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"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
Man
"Manners are love in a cool climate."
Love
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
People
"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
Sacrifice
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
People
"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
Humor
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
Health
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
Time
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
Family
"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
Sex
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