Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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God forgives those who invent what they need.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
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