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" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "
Alimony
Class
Curse
" 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. "
Live
America
Wind
" 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. "
Tyranny
Line
How Far
" Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. "
Honor
American
Life
" Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. "
Worth
Beasts
Without
" 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. "
Day
Seed
Television
" 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. "
Always
Dying
Growing
" Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. "
Hands
Like
Live
" God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. "
Yes
God
Ambition
" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "
Always
Motion
Growth
" Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. "
Jungle
Giant
Hip
" 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. "
Huge
Here
Absurd
" 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. "
Enough
Smart
Lawyer
" 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. "
Ability
Become
Quick
" I hate everything which is not in myself. "
Which
Everything
Myself
" I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. "
Horses
Poor
Afraid
" 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. "
America
Bullets
Here
" In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. "
Trust
Will
You
" 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. "
Present
Think
Act
" It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. "
Wife
Good
Good Idea
" It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. "
Make
Men
Which
" Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. "
Masculinity
Small
Winning
" Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. "
Question
Obsession
You
" Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. "
Forever
Newspaper
Lost
" Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. "
Most
History
Count
" Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. "
Who
Those
Sentimentality
" 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. "
Book
Baby
Test
" The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. "
Art
People
Purpose
" The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. "
Higher
Suffering
Socialism
" The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. "
Beautiful Woman
Heart
Woman
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