A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.Cyril Connolly
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike.
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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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