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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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