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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."
Poverty
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
Christian
"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
Experience
"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."
Writing
"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."
Writing
"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."
Business
"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
Work
"And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural."
Sex
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
Food
"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
Experience
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