- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
- High Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction is never going to die.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer in outlines.
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.
- Exclamation
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- Nov 07, 2020
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile... and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.
- Connotations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'
- Grand Prix
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- Nov 07, 2020
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020