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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

Writer's choices

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said — it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

Paris Review Interview (1969)

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)

Advertisers

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

Truth in Advertising (1936)

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)

Somewhere else

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

One Man's Meat (1942)

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