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" Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. "
Over
Never
Won
" An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. "
Obituary
Missing
Last
" Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. "
Sleep
Need
More
" Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. "
Wearing
Diplomatic
Unpleasant
" Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. "
Fashion
Adopt
You
" For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. "
Change
Environment
Introvert
" For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. "
Sex
You
Will
" Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. "
Neighbors
Same
Having
" However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. "
Man
Level
He
" If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. "
Succeed
Failure
First
" In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis. "
Live
Universe
Human
" I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. "
Involvement
Other
People
" I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. "
Imagine
Give
Force
" Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost? "
Lost
World
Whole
" It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. "
Enough
Last
Relationships
" It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. "
Tolerance
Simple
Freedom
" It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. "
Meant To Be
Farm
Good
" Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. "
Happened
Grave
Funny
" Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. "
Living
Rudeness
Opportunity
" Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. "
Love
Foundation
Enough
" Manners are love in a cool climate. "
Climate
Manners
Love
" Men get laid, but women get screwed. "
Get
Laid
Men
" My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. "
Mother
Father
Parenting
" Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. "
Never
Up
Level
" Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. "
Person
Sin
Reading
" Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. "
Nothing
Misfortunes
Laugh
" Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. "
Last
Refuge
Sex
" The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. "
Time
Happy
Happiness
" The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. "
Life
Happiness
Moving
" The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. "
Treat
Relationship
Achieving
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