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Horace, In A Particularly Boastful Mood, Once Said His Verse Would Last As Long As The Vestal Virgins Kept Going Up The Capitoline Hill To Worship At The Temple Of Jupiter. But Horace's Poetry Has Lasted Longer Than Jupiter's Religion, And Jupiter Himself Has Only Survived Because He Disappeared Into Literature.

One Of The Most Obvious Uses Of Literature, I Think, Is Its Encouragement Of Tolerance... Bigots And Fanatics Seldom Have Any Use For The Arts, Because They're So Preoccupied With Their Beliefs And Actions That They Can't See Them Also As Possibilities.

Most Of My Writing Consists Of An Attempt To Translate Aphorisms Into Continuous Prose.

In The World Of The Imagination, Anything Goes That's Imaginatively Possible, But Nothing Really Happens.

War Appeals To Young Men Because It Is Fundamentally Auto-eroticism.