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I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
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The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi
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I can never consent to being dictated to.
