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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
• If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
• We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never…
• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
• There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too…
• Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That…
• The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on…
• Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war…
• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
• With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the…

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