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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
Man,
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"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
Doubt
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
Books
"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."
Challenge
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
Appearance
"The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers."
Quality
"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
Research
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
Power
"When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split."
God
"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."
God
"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
Reading
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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