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"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
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"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."

"Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!"

"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"

"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."

"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."

"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."

"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."

"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."

"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making."
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