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“I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men too.”
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“In Wyoming quantity has a great deal more to do with satisfaction than does quality; after half a day's drive you won't care so much what it is you're going to eat as you will that there is enough of it.”
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“Cannibalism and human sacrifice are uncivilized. Yet our Western materialistic culture condones social cannibalism as a necessary sacrifice to society's collective appetite which, spurred by ambition and fear, demands that we devour whatever is proffered, even human dignity, in the sacred name of 'the standard of living' or the so-called 'national good.'”
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“... in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.”
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“Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but — justice ...”
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“In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.”
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“... perhaps these men who stand mid-way between the extremes of the two sexes are the advance-guard of a more enlightened civilization. They're despised and rejected of their fellow-men to-day. What they suffer in a world not yet ready to admit their right to existence, their right to love, no normal person can realize; but I believe that the time is not so far distant when we shall recognize in the best of our intermediate types the leaders and masters of the race.”
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“Was this, in the last analysis, how every man really wanted his woman — dependent on his strength, lost without his guidance?”