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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation, even when the imitation is of something better than the original.

If you lend someone twenty dollars and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Those most likely to believe the world is out to get them are the same people that are least likely to have anything the world wants.

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?

Ideals travel upward, manners downward.

The reason most people talk to themselves is because they’re often the only ones who will listen.