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"Bullshit french post-war rationalizing."
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"If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."
"When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing."
"Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors."
"Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism."
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
"Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them."
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"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
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