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" A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. "

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" All that we are not stares back at what we are. "

" What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. "

" Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. "

" If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. "

" I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. "

" A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. "

" The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. "

" Now is the age of anxiety. "

" Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. "

" It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. "

" My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. "

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" One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. "

" When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. "

" Music is the best means we have of digesting time. "

" Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. "

" It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. "

" The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. "

" The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. "

" May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? "

" In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. "

" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "

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" Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. "

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" No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. "