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"I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct."
"I love the attention but I don't like too much of it."
"I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life."
"Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much."
"We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices. There's too much competition and money out there, with many buyout specialists."
"Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere."
"A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying."
"In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why."
"There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment."
"Is it possible to love someone too much? You bet."
"Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss."
"[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry."
"It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time."
"In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men."
"A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much."
"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."
"What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?"
"In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable."
"If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate."
"There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it."
