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"Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral."
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"The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
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"How hungrily we read about ourselves!"
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"We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in."
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"I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not."
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"In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death"
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"Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well."
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"Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all."
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"There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil."
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"Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television."
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"The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all."
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"Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."
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"Never offend an enemy in a small way."

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"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."
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"Never have children, only grandchildren."
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"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head."
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting."
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"Love is a fan club with only two fans."
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"Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors."
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"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."
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"As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing--not art, not sex--more than going to the movies."
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"A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)"
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"Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family."
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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
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"Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!"
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"To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all."
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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60."
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"The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death."
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"We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing."
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"Always a godfather, never a god."
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"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
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"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"
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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

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"Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race."
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"I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out."
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"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose."
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"The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."
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"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
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"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
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"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself."
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"The unfed mind devours itself."
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