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"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
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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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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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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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"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."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
Society
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship
"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
Being
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