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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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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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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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"The public are not stupid."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"The public seldom forgive twice."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"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
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
Literature
"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
Literature
"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
Time
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
"Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House."
Man
"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
Public
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
Literature
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
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