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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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No one earns 100 million. You steal 100 million.
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality...
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Success didn't spoil me. I've always been insufferable.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Do not even try.
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Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
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I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
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Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
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If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer—not a book.
On self-help books
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The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.
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Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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Those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.
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Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
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I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.
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Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naëveté.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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October 27, 1950
(age 73)
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