To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

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