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"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
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"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
Sex
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
Talent
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
Time
"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
Family
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
Virtue
"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
Sex
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity
"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."
Diplomacy
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
Biography
"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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