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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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" It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. "

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

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

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" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

" There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. "

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" By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. "

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" Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery. "

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