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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class."
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"I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized."
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"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."
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"If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler."
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"I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums."
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"I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class."
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"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
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"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."
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"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
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"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
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"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
People

"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
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