I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

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Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

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The world is full of actors pretending to be human

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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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