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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 hate everything which is not in myself. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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