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" All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be. "
Los Angeles
Place
Dangerous
" Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly. "
High
Ambiguity
Narrative
" An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions. "
Years
System
Turn
" A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material. "
Outsider
Side
Window
" Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet. "
Nature
Interesting
Work
" Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed. "
Like
Everyone
Being
" Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism. "
Always
War
Class
" Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so. "
Conspiracy
Every
Year
" Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964. "
Met
Los Angeles
Business
" I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical. "
Believe
I Am
Am
" I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive. "
Short
Sound
Myself
" I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world. "
Blue
White
Red
" I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system. "
Love
Justice
Criminal Justice System
" I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people. "
People
Great
Meeting
" In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves. "
Sports
Earth
Earthquake
" In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks. "
Secret
Existence
Which
" I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me. "
Character
Only
Always
" Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary. "
You
New York
Living
" Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged. "
New York
Dangerous
Along
" Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war. "
World
Imagination
Only
" The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability. "
Beyond
Accountability
Always
" Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive. "
New York
Baseball
Games
" What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not. "
War
How
History
" What the world does not need is another script or television writer. "
Writer
Script
Television
" Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe. "
Like
Labor
Laying
" You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet. "
Meet
Get
People
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