Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

" I hate everything which is not in myself. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Beautiful Woman

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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