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" Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. "

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" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

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" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

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" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

" My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons. "

" The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "

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" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

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" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

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" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "

" I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. "