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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."
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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."
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"Be content to seem what you really are."
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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."
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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."
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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."
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"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
Crime

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."
History

"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
Content

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."
Third

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
Certainty

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."
Peace

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
Love

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
Storytelling

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."
Girls

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
Success
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