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" Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. "

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" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. "

" Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. "

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" The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. "

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" The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. "

" The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. "

" It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. "

" In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. "

" With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. "

" The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. "

" What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. "

" Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. "

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" In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. "

" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "

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