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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."
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"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."
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"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."
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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
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"Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates."
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"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
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"Yeah, I just have a little part in it. In the house that Brian Cox barbecued himself appears in The Ring 2; I am the real estate agent that is selling the house, and Naomi Watts comes to check out the house as part of her investigation."
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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
Self


"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
Heroism


"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
Selling


"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
Creativity


"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."
Thought


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
Life


"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
Science


"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
Thought


"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
Science


"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
Luck
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