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• We want someone to bring us the news.
• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth…
• Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only…
• What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
• Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
• He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a…
• There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
• We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
• Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
• That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at…

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