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

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. "

" Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. "

" A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. "

" 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 hate everything which is not in myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "