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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

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Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

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