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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."
"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."
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"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."
"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
"What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
"You're a romantic, said Crabbe. 'You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull."
"Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines."
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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