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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."
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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride."
People
"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
Imagination
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
Darkness
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
Science
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
Books
"I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
Hope
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
Family
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
People
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