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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
Friendship
"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."
Life
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
Experience
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
Peace
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."
Man
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
Man
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
Life
"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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