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" Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. "

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" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "

" The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. "

" The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. "

" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "

" One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. "

" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "

" You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. "

" The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. "

" Only in a novel are all things given full play. "

" The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. "

" Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. "

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" My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. "

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. "

" There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. "

" The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. "

" Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. "

" The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. "

" It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. "

" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. "

" I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. "

" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "

" God doesn't know things. He is things. "

" God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. "

" I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. "

" Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. "

" When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. "

" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "

" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "