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

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" Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. "

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

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" Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. "

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" A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "