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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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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."

"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going."

"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
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