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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
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"I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk."
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"They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think."
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Explore more quotes by Leslie Fiedler

"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
Reading

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."
Fun

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."
Man

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love

"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."
Literature

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."
Work

"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."
Media

"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."
Thought

"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."
Love

"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."
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