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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song
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Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
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We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all senses of that word. To be too obviously, unapologetically emotional is to risk being considered foolish, or at the very least not serious.
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I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
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I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.
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Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
