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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See

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