"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
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"It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes."
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"But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box."
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"A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound."
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"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
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"No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded"
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"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."
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"I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them."
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"The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else."
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"You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them."
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"When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves."
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"Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?"
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"Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts."
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"There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes."
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"I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing."
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"A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do."
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"I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work."
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"You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?"
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"When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous."
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