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Ben Shahn

"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."

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"I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on."

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

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"It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people."

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