Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 9, 1911 Death: August 2, 1972
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface..
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterw….
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain o….
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch televisio….
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themse….
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something..