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"Superior people never make long visits."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."
Writer
"Superior people never make long visits."
People
"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
Authenticity
"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."
Doubt
"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."
Writing
"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
Entertainment
"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."
People
"My father used to say superior people never make long visits."
Family
"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
Poetry
"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."
Man
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