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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."

"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture."

"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say."

"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
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