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• I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and…
• Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
• A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
• Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
• The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
• Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our…
• If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless…
• For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
• Christianity is such a silly religion.
• In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of…
• The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
• Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't…

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