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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy
"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
People
"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
Confidence
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
Food
"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
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