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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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

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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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