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"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"The proper study of mankind is woman."
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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."
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"I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it."
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"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."
Friendship
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
Health
"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
Art
"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children."
Family
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
Religion
"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
Conscience
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
Life
"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
Effort
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
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"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
Life
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