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"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
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"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
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