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"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
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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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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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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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"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind."
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"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
Money

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
Losing

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
Feelings

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
Being

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
People

"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."
Success

"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
Hope

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
Beauty

"When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs."
Today
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