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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

After that, we had no

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

Dull people filled him with terror.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

There's no need for algebra where two and two make five.

Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.

We are the sum of all our parts

A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

Her lack of magnificence in a magnificent world

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius
I know it too well to blush behind it.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

There's no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

The hills climbed sunward to the sun.

There is no happy land. There is no end to hunger.

McGuire's meaty shoulders recoiled burlily as if from the cold shock of water.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

out of death, life, out of the coarse rank earth, a flower.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

You can't go home again

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.