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"If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up."
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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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"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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"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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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good."
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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."
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"I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio."
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"I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone."
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"The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music."
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"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly."
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"I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete."
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"The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original."
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"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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"There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language."
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