“ I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ”
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“ Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ”
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“ It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it. ”
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“ It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. ”
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“ If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ”
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“ For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ”
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“ Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. ”
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“ It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ”
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“ I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. ”
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“ Most people coming out of a war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minutetominute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes, for a time, all others seem alien and frivolous. Friends are glad to see you again, but you know immediately that most of them have put you to one side, and while it is easy enough to say that you should have known that before, most of us don't, and it is painful. You are face to face with what will happen to you after death. ”
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“ It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ”
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“ For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ”
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“ I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night. ”
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“ Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ”
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“ If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. ”
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“ Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America. ”
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“ It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. ”
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“ Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ”
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“ Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? ”
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“ It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. ”
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“ The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. ”
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“ Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? ”
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“ No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. ”
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“ I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. ”
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