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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."

"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."

"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
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