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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

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I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

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My paintings are rubbish.

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I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

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I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

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I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

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I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

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I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

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Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

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Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

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I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

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Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

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