United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931) United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

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