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"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
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"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
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"In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!"
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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"
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"Politics, it's all corrupt!"
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"Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments."
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"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."
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"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."
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"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!"
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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
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"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
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"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."
Friendship
"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."
Books
"The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals."
Religion
"I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously."
Writing
"I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow."
Work
"I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world."
Work
"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
Politics
"It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then."
Emotional
"When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed."
People
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."
Art
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