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- The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in…
- Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all.…
- She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
- Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.…
- It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their…
- The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be…
- The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some…
- Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day…
- The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average…
- Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind…
- There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something…
- The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment…
- It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be…
- The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
- They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of…
- I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.
- A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
- I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man.…
- All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium…
- All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its…
- A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the…
- She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know…
- I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.
- Shake your business up and pour it. I don't have all day.
- Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle