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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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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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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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"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
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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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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
Experience
"Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband."
First
"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
"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
Work
"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
Public
"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
"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
People
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
Life
"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."
Work
"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
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