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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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Personal Development
"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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Personal Development
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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Personal Development
"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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Personal Development
"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."
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"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
Humor
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
Inspirational
"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
Writing
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
Society
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."
Attitude
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth. He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three years afterward, from the fever which had cured the disease, waking from the fever without even knowing that it had been the fever itself which they had fought against and not the sickness, looking with stubborn recalcitrance backward beyond the fever and into the disease with actual regret, weak from the fever yet free of the disease and not even aware that the freedom was that of impotence."
Childhood
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
Conscience
"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."
Realization
"Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind."
Perception
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