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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses."
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"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being

"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
Literature

"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
Honor

"A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much."
Talk

"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
Family

"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People

"Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own."
Work

"I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans."
Literature

"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
Being
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