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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."

"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."

"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
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