Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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We’re not a democracy.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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