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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

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Sex is a slotmachine.

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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

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What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?

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The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

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People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

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A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 14th, 1896

Died: September 28th, 1970

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