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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
Self-Preservation
"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
Inspirational
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Love
"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
Creativity
"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
Sane
"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."
Enemy
"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
Nation
"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
Intellectual
"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."
Life
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