"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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Will Rogers, American Actor

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Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

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"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."

"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."

"Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House."

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