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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
The human is the only guilty animal.
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
