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“I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.”
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“The tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity of foresight, but refuses to use it.”
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“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
― Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing
― Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing
“They are voices from the past and their actions have echoed into our world and, unknown to them, they preserved our future.”
― Beware the Midnight Train
― Beware the Midnight Train
“That’s what I dislike most of all in people—cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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