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- We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with…
- It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
- Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so…
- I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from…
- Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of…
- I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of…
- I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away…
- You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who…
- You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away…
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