"I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things."
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"Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty."
"Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness."
"He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine."
"I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad."
"All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority."
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact."
"The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy."
"In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain."
"Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions."
"Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid."
"In a certain sense all men are historians."
"Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them."
"Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap."
"I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always."
"Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws."
"The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain."
"Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought."
"Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves."
"Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?"