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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
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"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
God

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Work

"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
Music

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act

"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
Imagination

"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy

"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
Thought

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
Life

"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature
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