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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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