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Life's meaning has always eluded me, and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.

Letter to Mary Virginia Parrish (1969)

Was born on: 11.07.1899
About Author: American writer

When not to become a father

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

A writing man

As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly or unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

The Ring of Time

Pig enema

I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

Death of a Pig, The Atlantic Monthly (1948)

Television

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

One Man's Meat (1942)

What do spiders do?

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

Letter to Carrie A. Wilson (1951)

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