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"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action."
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"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."
"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."
"Find the problems-not to complain-but to solve."
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"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."
"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
"By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication."
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