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"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
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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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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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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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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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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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"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."
Kids
"It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership."
Car
"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."
Religion
"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."
Religion
"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."
Life
"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."
Books
"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."
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"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."
Illusion
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."
Life
"My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it."
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