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"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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"There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction."
Fiction
"Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves."
Heart
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
World
"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
War
"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
Truth
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
Marriage
"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
Madness
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
Experience
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Fiction
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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"Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially."
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"When you do not bother anyone at night, does anyone bother you? No one scolds you at night, do they? During the daytime, you create interferences, and that is why you suffer. Nature's law is such that not a single difficulty will affect you, provided you do not interfere. All that affects you is your own interferences."
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"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
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Personal Development
"I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen."
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