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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

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In violence, we forget who we are.

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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

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In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1912

Died: October 25th, 1989

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