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If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.
Nestroy's words ought to apply to an artist and an idea: "I have made a prisoner, and he won't let go of me!"
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
I am not for women but against men.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
I no longer have collaborators. I used to be envious of them. They repel those readers whom I want to lose myself.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
When the word "peace" was uttered for the first time, there was panic at the stock exchange. They screamed in pain: "We've been earning! Leave us the war! We've earned the war!"
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
War is at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that the other fellow isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
To be human is erroneous.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
You don't even live once.
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)