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- There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I…
- I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his…
- I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
- But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all…
- How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
- But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely…
- This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself…
- Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by…
- Give me an honest con man any day.
- You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s…
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that…
- You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven…
- There are still a few men who love desperately.
- probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man…
- Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
- Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to…
- If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The…
- Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
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