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"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."

"Success is measured on how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom."

"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

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"There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things."

"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."