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"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood."
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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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"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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"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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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
Television
"I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that."
War
"Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing."
Pressure
"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others."
People
"I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock."
Boats
"When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption."
People
"Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed."
Success
"The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar."
Charity
"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."
Reality
"Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood."
People
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