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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
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"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."

"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."

"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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