- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
- Grenade
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
- Bullets
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate everything which is not in myself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020