A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something.

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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

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With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

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