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"No one wants advice — only corroboration."

"There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man."

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."

"If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick."

"Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn’t do anything about it."

"A powerful, big-stomached man came into the bunkhouse."

"He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself."

"The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business."

"A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it."