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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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