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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
"In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California."
"With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence."
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
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