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

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" 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. "

" We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. "

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

" 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 Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. "

" Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. "

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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