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"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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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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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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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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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
Will
"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."
Time
"I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."
Nature
"I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie."
Fool
"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."
Fun
"I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry."
Running
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."
Life
"Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me."
Hope
"Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book."
Time
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