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"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
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"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."
History
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Fear
"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
Now
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
"I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either."
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"Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics."
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