"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.“
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"What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."
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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."
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