"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's."

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"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's."

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"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's."

"Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out."

"Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment."

"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."

"When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion."

"Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness."

"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success."

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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."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."