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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 bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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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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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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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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"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
Character
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
Pressure
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
Thought
"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
Work
"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."
People
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
Past
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
Music
"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."
Business
"I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap."
Business
"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."
Culture
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