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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
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Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers - same thing exactly.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
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