"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."

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"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."

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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

Experience, Fact

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."

Friendship, People, Heart, Absence, Friends

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

Creativity, Idea

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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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."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."

"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."

"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."

"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

"I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road."

"Ireland is a great country to die or be married in."

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"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."

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"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."