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"If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow."
"The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it."
"Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation."
"If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge."
"Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement."
"Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist."
"You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his."
"Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict."
"Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land."
"The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous."
"Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins."
"Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity."
"The ideal love affair should be conducted by post."
"Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads."
"Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion."
"We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore."
"The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child."
"I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact."
"The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack."
"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again."