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" Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue. "

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" American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. "

" To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. "

" A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. "

" Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. "

" To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. "

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" Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. "

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" My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. "

" My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves. "

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" When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. "

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" Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. "

" Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. "

" In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes. "

" All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. "

" A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. "

" I like short stories. "

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" My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it. "

" An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. "

" Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. "

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" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

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