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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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All progress means war with society.

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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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