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" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "

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" When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. "

" What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. "

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" The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. "

" A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. "

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