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"I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over."
Identity
"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."
Death
"Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head."
Memory
"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."
Technology
"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."
Fiction
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man
"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
Work
"Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself."
Time
"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do."
Death
"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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