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• I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
• We do not write as we want, but as we can.
• Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.…
• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…
• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others…
• The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
• The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.…
• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too…
• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
• Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
• We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
• I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

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