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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)

Was born on: 11.07.1899
About Author: American writer

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

Life

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Charlotte's Web

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)

Somewhere else

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

One Man's Meat (1942)

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)

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