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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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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."

"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"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."

"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."

"I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all."
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"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."

"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."

"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."

"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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