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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
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"When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away."

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"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."

"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."
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