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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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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
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"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."
Age
"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."
Intellectual
"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."
Life
"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
Time
"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
"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."
Creativity
"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."
Life
"I'm more interested in writing than in performing."
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
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