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" Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it. "

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" 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. "

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" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion. "

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" Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. "

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" What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. "

" Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. "

" Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing. "

" To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. "

" By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm. "

" I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

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

" Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. "

" 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. "

" The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

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" I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. "

" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "

" You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? "