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"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."
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"We are what we think."
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"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."
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"Think of what you desire out of life."
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"Who I am? Am I thinking?"
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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
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"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."
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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."
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"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
People
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
"Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate."
Literature
"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
Fun
"It's funny to be a critic."
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