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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."
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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
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"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
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"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
Nothing
"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
Public
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
Family
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
Books
"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
Care
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
Literature
"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
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