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" I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution. "

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" Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary. "

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" I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America. "

" A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. "

" My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind. "

" Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life. "

" I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices. "

" To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity. "

" It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions. "

" I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter. "