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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
Love
"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
American
"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."
Computer
"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
Politics
"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."
Act
"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."
Son
"Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author."
Life
"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
Absence
"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."
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