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Alimony is the curse of the writing class. - [Alimony] Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. - [Writers] He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat. - [Appearance] Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. - [Newspapers] The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - [Socialism] The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. - [Anxiety] I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. - An American Dream (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. - Ancient Evenings [Books (First Lines)] The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars. - Of a Fire on the Moon [Explorers] Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assault craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on the beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead. - The Naked and the Dead [Books (First Lines)]
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