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"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
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"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."

"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."

"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."

"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
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