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" Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. "

" 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. "

" The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. "

" When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. "

" Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. "

" 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. "

" The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. "

" There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. "

" 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. "

" I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. "

" Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. "

" Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. "

" In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. "

" It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. "

" I hate everything which is not in myself. "

" Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. "

" There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. "

" Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. "

" The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. "

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. "

" Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. "

" 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. "

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" The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. "