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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just…
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate…
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these…
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards.…
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the…
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute…
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for…
— Charlie Brooker
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it…
— Todd Solondz
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.…
— Steven Pinker
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's…
— Miranda July
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