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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
Talent
"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out."
Man
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
Illusion
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
Society
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
Family
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
Faith
"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
Fear
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
Books
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
Life
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