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"The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
Desire

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
Life

"Time is the only critic without ambition."
Time

"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
Time

"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."
Memory

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
Art

"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
Family

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
Life

"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
Life
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