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Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?

Homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Never put things off ... you will wake up and find them gone.

Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

Being in love made you especially vulnerable.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

I write to reach eternity

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours

Old soldiers never die, they write novels.

The quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.