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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don’t know how much history young women today know about those battles.