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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
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"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
Progress
"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
Family
"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
Society
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
Events
"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."
Being
"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
Goal
"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
Home
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
People
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
Car
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
Life
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