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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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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."

"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought."

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