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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

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