"Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself."
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"It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show."
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"If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!"
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"How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
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"I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle."
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet."
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"Only in books do we learn what’s really going on."
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"No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary."
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"Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?."
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"I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand."
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"Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)"
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"All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me."
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"The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time."
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"The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks."
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"As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine."
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"I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
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"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen."
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"Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about."
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"People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little."
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