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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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