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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

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If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

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Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

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Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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