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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.

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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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