Occupation: Novelist Birth: January 14, 1896 Death: September 28, 1970
Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy..
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitute….
I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never ….
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work..
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally a….
Individuality is freedom lived..
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures..
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting..
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food..
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to t….
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The….
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them..
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases….
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they….
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to ….
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe..
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that….
Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats..
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the positi….
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up this country and th….
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the lit….