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Humor itself is a kind strange thing in the first place, it's kind of a short-circuit in the brain around horror that saves us from having to face it totally.

— James Jones Don Swaim interview (1975)

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This is the song of the men who have no place, played by a man who has never had a place, and can therefore play it.

There's only a thin red line between the sane and the mad.

The Thin Red Line (1962)

If I get it, no one will ever know to what heights I might have gone as a writer. Maybe if you wrote about the promise that was there, all wouldn't be lost.

To Reach Eternity (1989)

Sometimes the air is awfully clear here. You can look off to sea and see the soft, warm, raggedy roof of clouds stretching on and on and on. It almost seems as if you can look right on into eternity.

To Reach Eternity (1989)

I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.

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