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“... I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in — the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ... ”
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“... she felt that most of the obstacles in her life had been placed there by logical people.”
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“One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.”
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“Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.”
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“I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.”
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“Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!”
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“The mind's health, as well as the body's, is promoted by occasional privation or abstinence.”
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“He counted all the bills over twice, and he looked exactly like a man skinning a flea for its hide and tallow.”