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"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind."
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"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."
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"The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence."
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"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
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"The middlebrow, I hate."
Hate
"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
Fun
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."
Friendship
"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."
Literature
"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
"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."
Literature
"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
Existence
"I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off."
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