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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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"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."
Life
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself."
Time
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
Government
"Poetry is the deification of reality."
Poetry
"The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention."
Attention
"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
People
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Music
"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."
Suffering
"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
Art
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
Taste
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