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"The literature hardly helps. You remember it only when you are well, healthy, and in a positive state of mind. And you tend to blame your circumstances and people around you for the outcome of the follies you commit."
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Personal Development
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
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Personal Development
"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."
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Personal Development
"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
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"If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."
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"There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them."
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"In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters."
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"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."
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"If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one."
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"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
Authenticity
"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."
Nature
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