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The Only Excuse For A Novelist, Aside From The Entertainment And Vicarious Living His Books Give The People Who Read Them, Is As A Sort Of Second-class Historian Of The Age He Lives In. The "reality" He Missed By Writing About Imaginary People, He Gains By Being Able To Build A Reality More Nearly Out Of His Own Factual Experience Than A Plain Historian Or Biographer Can.

I Think We Are All Of Us A Pretty Milky Lot, Without Tea-table Convictions And Our Radicalism That Keeps So Consistently Within The Bounds Of Decorum . . . .i'd Like To Annihilate These Stupid Colleges Of Ours . . . Instillers Of Stodginess.

To Fight Oppression, And To Work As Best We Can For A Sane Organization Of Society, We Do Not Have To Abandon The State Of Mind Offreedom. If We Do That We Are Letting The Same Thuggery In By The Back Door That We Are Fighting Off In Front Of The House.

It's Easy To Forget How Central The French People Are In Everything We Mean When We Say Europe.

Women Is Fine Once You Got Em Pinned Down, Boss, But When They Ain't Pinned Down They're Hell.