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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"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
"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
Sane
"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
Nation
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
Love
"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
"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."
Creativity
"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
Self-Preservation
"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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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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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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