"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
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"Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live."
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"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."
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"No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
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"I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love."
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"What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves."
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"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."
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"Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing."
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"Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it."
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"it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises."
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"Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy."
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"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
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"A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society."
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"Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion"
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"If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk."
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"I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor"."
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"Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic."
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"The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack."
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"Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms."
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