“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”
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“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”
“Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
“If you don't know what happened behind you, you've no idea of what is happening around you.”
“Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe.”
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”