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"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
Boys
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Man
"Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people."
People
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
Life
"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers."
War
"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."
Fear
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