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Hugh Leonard

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."

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"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
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"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."
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"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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