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"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."

"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."

"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
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"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
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