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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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