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Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

This is the most beautiful thing we'll ever have to publish. Let us print it if it's the last effort of our lives!

-on publishing Ulysses

I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable - in other words, in an art of life.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.