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In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

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All pornography is to a degree sadistic — inevitably.

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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

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The Crown [Hotel] did not so much cook as assassinate food.

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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

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When you talk of revolution... you never talk of the day after.

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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

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She had a passion for hats, none of which returned her affection.

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The stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

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Her poverty was a hard ulcer in her, and it took all her strength.

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She disappeared silently — like a cat slipping out of the larder.

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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

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If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

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Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

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No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

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Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are — gentleness, memory, and habit.

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The sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

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There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

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Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings — many of them abortive.

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He's got tired of her now, has Martin. He said she took so much worshiping she made his knees sore.

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Like many quite good medical men he regarded women as mentally deficient and physiologically malformed.

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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

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Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

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A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

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