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" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

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" Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. "

" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

" The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. "

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

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

" If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected. "

" Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. "

" I hate nobody. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "

" Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. "

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. "

" To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" 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?' "

" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "

" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "