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- The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
- When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
- I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the…
- People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
- Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and…
- Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
- The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
- Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
- I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
- I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
- Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual…
- An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,…
- Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only…
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
- You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get…
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