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neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness toward the world or of too much openness.

Then let us raise children within a codified hero-system, that will permit us to survive and thrive according to our peculiar needs.

The reason is precisely the advance of specialization, the impossibility of making safe general statements, which has led to a general imbecility.

the only thing more presumptuous than intruding into the private world of the dying would be to refuse his invitation.

the great increase in bitterness and frustration in the modern world is largely due to the eclipse of the sacred dimension

It is nationalists above all who flirt with Marxism

The central mistake committed both by the friends and the enemies of nationalism is the supposition that it is somehow natural.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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I was a little crazy. But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town

This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist.

The cynical ones are the best companions. But the best of all are the cynical ones when they are still devout; or after; when having been devout, then cynical, they become devout again by cynicism.

This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially constructed characters which are more remunerative when issued as people in a novel is good economics, perhaps, but does not make literature.