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"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."

"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."
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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."

"Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process."
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