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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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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."
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"If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public."
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"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer."
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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
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"The public be damned."
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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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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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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"I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans."
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction

"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

"In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that."
Literature

"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

"No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid."
Literature

"You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer."
Literature

"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
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