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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate everything which is not in myself. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "