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"The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."

"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish."

"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)"

"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."

"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."

"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."

"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice."And when you do find one, observe with care, he said to the intern:"they almost always have crystals in their heart."

"He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."


"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."


"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."


"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."


"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."


"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."


"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"
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