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"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember."
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"There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!"
"When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."
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"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."
"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do."
"Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book."
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives."
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
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