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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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