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Sudden Resolutions, Like The Sudden Rise Of Mercury In A Barometer, Indicate Little Else Than The Variability Of The Weather.

The Orthodoxy Of America Is As Rigid As That Of Soviet Russia. There Is One Point Of View Allowed. If You Start A Conversation From Another Point Of View, The Words Dry In Your Mouth.

The Theatre Is The Best Way Of Showing The Gap Between What Is Said And What Is Seen To Be Done, And That Is Why, Ragged And Gap-toothed As It Is, It Has Still A Far Healthier Potential Than Some Poorer, Abandoned Arts.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

Poetry Is The Key To The Hieroglyphics Of Nature.