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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names."
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"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
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"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."
"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."
"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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