If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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The novel is the most complete, most complex, and most profound expression of human reality that exists.
The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the West; it is whether man can bear to live without God.