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"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
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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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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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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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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
Intellectual
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Art
"Power without abuse loses its charm."
Power
"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
Man
"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
Creativity
"Politeness is organized indifference."
Behavior
"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
God
"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
History
"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well."
Poetry
"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
Writing
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