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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.

Democracy

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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Honor

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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.

Lies

4.0 · 58 votes · 165 reads

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Change

5.0 · 30 votes · 185 reads

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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Writers

3.3 · 63 votes · 166 reads

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Feelings
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
5.0 · 63 votes · 193 reads
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Art and Culture
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
3.4 · 10 votes · 109 reads
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Art and Culture
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
4.9 · 24 votes · 76 reads
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Thought and Reason
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
3.9 · 30 votes · 85 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.6 · 19 votes · 145 reads
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Nature
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
4.4 · 47 votes · 137 reads
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Countries
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual f
4.6 · 9 votes · 160 reads
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Society
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
3.0 · 33 votes · 43 reads
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Art and Culture
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
3.3 · 12 votes · 115 reads
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