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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up."

"For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio."

"The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings."

"I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came."

"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."

"When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term."
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