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"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."
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"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
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"What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?"
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"He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something."
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"Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index."
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"They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills."
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"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy."
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"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
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"Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man."
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"Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality

"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism

"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity

"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Life

"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."
Life

"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Life

"The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
Philosophy

"You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs."
Society

"Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal."
Art
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