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"People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world."
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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."
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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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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"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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"What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world."
People
"His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?"
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"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."
People
"Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name."
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"I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde."
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"Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing."
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