Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

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