"If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors."
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"A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage."
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"Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America."
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"We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless."
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"Life imitates art -- but badly."
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"Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it."
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"Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society."
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"Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor."
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"Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?"
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"Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward."
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"Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years."
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"There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal."
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"No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February."
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"In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one."
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"In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other."
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"How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah."
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"A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner."
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"The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony."
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"A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society."
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"There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice."
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