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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."

"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."

"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."


"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."


"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."


"(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car."


"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."


"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."


"I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity."
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