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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."

"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
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