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"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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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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"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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"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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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."
God
"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
People
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
Man
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
God
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
Life
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
Fact
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
Corruption
"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."
Acceptance
"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
Cause
"None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature."
Nature
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