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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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Personal Development
"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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Personal Development
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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Personal Development
"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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Personal Development
"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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Personal Development
Explore more quotes by E. L. Doctorow
"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."
Art
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
Writing
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
History
"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech."
Thought
"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."
Life
"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."
Identity
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
Writing
"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
Time
"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."
Experience
"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."
Fiction
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