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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."

"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."

"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."
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"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."

"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."

"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."

"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."
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