"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."
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"Please all, and you will please none."
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"Remember, you are only committed to what you confess."
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"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
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"Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are."
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"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
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"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become."
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"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
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"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."
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"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
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"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."
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"When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."
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"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
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"They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure."
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"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress."
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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
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"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?"
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