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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he ...more

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...more

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Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

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Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....T...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns ...more

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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must ...more

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The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you ...more

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her ey...more

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that wit...more

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I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does...more