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"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed."

"Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?"

"I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command not obey."

"We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn't there before they arrived."

"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
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