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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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