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"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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"We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk."
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"Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die."
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"I talk by playing, not by words."
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"I'm not sure we think it's a win to talk about what you're taking out."
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"I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point."
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"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge."
Knowledge
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work."
Work
"What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene."
People
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it."
Time
"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
Work
"It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject."
Will
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Family
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