"Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them."
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"When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries."
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"The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
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"Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone."
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"A kind Of excellent dumb discourse."
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"I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can."
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"Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself."
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"You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs."
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"With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting"
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"Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind."
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"I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much."
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"For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music."
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"Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees."
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"There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films."
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"Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers."
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"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
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"I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time."
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"I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting"
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"Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated."
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"All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system."
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