"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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"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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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

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"No one can do the learning for you."

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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

Edmund Wilson, American Critic

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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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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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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

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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."

Brad Holland, American Artist

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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Elizabeth Bibesco, British Poet

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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

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"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."

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"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."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"No one can do the learning for you."

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

"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."

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

"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."

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

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"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."

"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."

"There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd."

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so."

"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."

"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."

"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."