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"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
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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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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
Time
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Business
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
Intelligence
"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."
Work
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
Life
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
World
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."
Friendship
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