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Fiction is the higher autobiography.
For when will we civilized beings become really serious? said Kierkegaard. Only when we have known hell through and through. Without this, hedonism and frivolity will diffuse hell through all our days.
I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
I am money’s medium. It passes through me— taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
It all goes back to those German existentialists who tell you how good dread is for you, how it saves you from distraction and gives you your freedom and makes you authentic. God is no more. But Death is.
Man’s life is not a business.
New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn’t come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.
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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
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