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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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