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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
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"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."


"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred."


"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."


"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people."


"The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it."


"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."
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