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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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