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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
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