The Ant and the Grasshopper is devised to bring home to the young the useful lesson that in an imperfect world industry is rewarded and giddiness punished.

Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life.

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers.

five years in India, two spent with a saintly Yogi in an ashram, he has found peace.

Larry Darrell disinclined to assume a conventional role in American society his peers all want to enjoy the prosperity of the twenties and can not understand his antipathy toward work.

“'The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard.

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”.

Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903).

I endeavor to bear my misfortunes with fortitude.' (from Creatures of Circumstance, 1947) It is a misfortune for me that the telling of a story just for the sake of the story is not an activity that is in favor with the intelligentsia.

It has amused me to tell stories and I have told a great many.

'I have never pretended to be anything but a story teller.

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