Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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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.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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