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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

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There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 31st, 1923

Died: November 10th, 2007

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