"Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed."
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"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate."
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"I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true."
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"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime."
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"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."
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"SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?"
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"You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself"
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"Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."
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"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
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"If you can't be disciplined, be clever."
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"Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours."
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"It's harder to be kind than clever"
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"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
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"How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant."
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"[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak."
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"A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'."
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"Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."
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"The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel."
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"The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers."
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