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"I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy."
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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
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"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."
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"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes."
Home

"What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops."
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"Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business."
Business

"Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27."
Old

"I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!"
People

"I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light."
Light

"God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK."
Faith

"Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way."
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"I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy."
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"My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old."
Music
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