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"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
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"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Art
"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
Luck
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
Love
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."
Future
"Only lies and evil come from letting people off."
People
"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes."
Love
"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
Equality
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
Emotional
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
Philosophy
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
Happiness
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"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."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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