The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it -- they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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What is art but a way of seeing? by
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I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.' by Saul Bellow
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that
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The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.
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