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" I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. "

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" Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. "

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" My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. "

" Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. "

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" My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines. "

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" The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. "

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" I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. "

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" The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. "

" 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. "

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