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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
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"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
Theory
"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."
Family
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
Poet
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
Music
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