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"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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"The difference with me is that I did inhale."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."
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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."
First
"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
Work
"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
People
"There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital."
Truth
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
Life
"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
Experience
"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
Difference
"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."
Today
"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
Public
"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it."
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