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“Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.”

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.

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My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day…

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Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,…

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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

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My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it…

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“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim…

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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

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In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's…

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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

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