“The true test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind, and continue to function. (The Crack-Up)”
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“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― Studies in Classic American Literature
― Studies in Classic American Literature
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth spin; to have - positively - a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, as if humanity were over, and as for men and women, let them go hang - there is no getting over the fact that this desire seizes up pretty often.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
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