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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable."
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"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
Family
"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
Food
"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church."
Creativity
"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in."
Life
"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
Time
"They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I."
Business
"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
Christian
"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave."
Age
"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
Life
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