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"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"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."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"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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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
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