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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends. - [Laziness] A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied. - [Emotion] All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. - [Charm] Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - [Youth] As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers. - [Sadists : Publishers] Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. - [Failure] Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. - [Hate] Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. - [Imagination] In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. - [Sex] Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk. - [Life] Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. - [Poetry] Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. - [Cities] The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them. - [Civilization] The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. - [Marriage] The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,--luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition,--are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. - [Decadence] The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - [Past] The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe. - [Stupidity] Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. - [Vulgarity] When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types. - [Loyalty] While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. - [Thought] Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. - [Promises] Youth is a period of missed opportunities. - [Youth]
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