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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate

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