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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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"Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really."
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"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."
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"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration."
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"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
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"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."
Education
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"I love devils."
Love
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
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