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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
Food
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship
"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
People
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