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What is certain is that I am not a Marxist, as someone said a long time ago, let us recall, in a witticism reported by Engels. Must we still cite Marx as an authority in order to say "I am not a Marxist"?

Her nakedness was a challenge, her beauty a danger, her way of life an abomination and her existence an evil.

in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft.

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He

Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.

Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles? said John. I'm an editor, said Charles. I have to make decisions like that all the time.

The Cavelries hear and their short and furrie

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to be numbered. That God these people say they serve--and do serve, in ways that they don't know--has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you'd beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.

In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.

It was his hatred and his intelligence that he cherished, the one feeding the other.

despair, whether or not can be taken home and placed in the family table, must always be respected. Despair can make one monstrous, but it can also make one noble.

Since Negroes have been in this country their one major, devastating gain was their Emancipation, an emancipation no one regards any more as having been dictated by humanitarian impulses.

I had been well conditioned by the world in which I grew up, so I did not yet dare take the idea of becoming a writer seriously.

We go down the hall again, thank heaven, to my drink.

He had often thought of his loneliness, for example, as a condition which testified to his superiority.

the slackness of their bodies making vivid the history of their degradation

it was a deeper, deadlier, and more subtle hypocrisy than that, and a little honest sensuality, or a lot, would have been like water in an extremely bitter desert.

the whole motion of the figure is torment. It seemed a very strange figure for such a young kid to do, or, at least, it seemed strange until you thought about it.

Trouble is, I feel too paternal towards you, you son of a bitch." "That's the trouble with all you white bastards.

she looked again cold, brilliant, and bitterly helpless, a terrifying woman.

It is scarcely worthwhile to attempt remembering how many times the sun has looked down on the slaughter of the innocents.

there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death — ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.