"The realest people don’t have a lot of friends."
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"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
"I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful."
"The worst crime is faking it."
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
"People will always show their true selves in the end."
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real."
"I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be"
"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."
"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
"Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off."
"The devil's voice is sweet to hear."
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart."
"Problem with these other niggas they aint never real"
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."