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" A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. "

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" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "

" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president. "

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. "

" We're not a democracy. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. "

" I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.' "

" The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. "