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" He who is last had best laugh. "

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

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

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

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

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" Does one ever read a politician's books? "

" We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. "

" 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. "

" I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

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" 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. "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

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

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

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

" It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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