“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”
― Touch and Go: A Memoir
― Touch and Go: A Memoir
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
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