"Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking."
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"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
"There is great force hidden in a sweet command."
"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life."
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt."
"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
"Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs."
"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60."
"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
"Writers speak stench."
"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."
"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."