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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.