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"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

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"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."

"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."

"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
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