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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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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
Children
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
Land
"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
Famous
"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
Children
"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
Control
"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
Children
"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere."
Life
"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."
Cancer
"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."
People
"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching."
Life
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