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"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."
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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park."
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."
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"We have met the enemy, and they are ours."
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"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance."
Hair
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
Popular
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
"To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."
People
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