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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 14th, 1904

Died: July 24th, 1991

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