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"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."
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"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."
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"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."
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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
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"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
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"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
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"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
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"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer."
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"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
Life

"Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."
Man

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions."
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"I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day."
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