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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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"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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"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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"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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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't."
Thought
"I think situations are more important than plot and character."
Character
"I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old."
Education
"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another."
People
"My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done."
Family
"I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches."
Death
"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited."
Time
"And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy."
Education
"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
Poetry
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
Challenge
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