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“There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.”

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“Taste is a matter of taste.”

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Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44.…

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“She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view – the point of view of the creature who experiences them.…

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Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

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My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

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“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on…

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Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

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Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

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“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

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I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of…

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I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books…

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go…

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of…

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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