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The drawing shows me at a glance what would be spread over ten pages in a book.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Now they accuse me of going up and down the Nation on a whistlestop train, and the slogansthat they hurl at me most of the time are “Give’em hell, Harry.” That reputation I did not earn. All I do is to tell them [the Republicans] thetruth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.

The Literary “Fellow Travelers” of the Revolution.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t knowwhat he likes.

Gonzo journalism . . . is a style of “reporting” based on William Faulkner’s idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism—and the best journalists have always known this.

O may my heart’s truth

When All My Five and Country Senses See.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did His dictation.

[ On James Joyce :] An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to publicnotice to be universally recognized.

I learned three things in Zurich during thewar. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re eithera revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re notyou might as well be an artist as anything else.Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you mightas well be a revolutionary . . . I forget the thirdthing.

I hate writing, but I love having written.

I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir ThomasBrowne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann.

There is but one art—to omit! O if I knew how to omit, I would ask no other knowledge.

There is but one art—to omit! O if I knew how to omit, I would ask no other knowledge.

The world is so full of a number of things,

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.

I know of only one rule: style cannot be too clear , too simple .

I know of only one rule: style cannot be too clear , too simple .

Un roman est un miroir qui se promène sur une grande route .

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

[ Referring to film producer Samuel Goldwyn :] Well, Mr. Goldwyn, there is not much use in going on. There is this difference between you and me: You are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

I’ve got a soul: don’t tell me I haven’t. Cut me up and you can’t find it. Cut up a steam engine and you can’t find the steam. But, by George, it makes the engine go.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns as [Samuel] Johnson did when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit.