"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
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"I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied."
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"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."
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"Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time."
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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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"Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying."
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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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"Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature."
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"Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set."
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"Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans."
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"We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."
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"I think of myself as a very lazy author."
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"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
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"The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion."
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"I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans"
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"My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me"
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"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
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