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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
Will
"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"
Horror
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy
"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."
People
"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
Books
"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."
Nature
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."
Fun
"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."
Criticism
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