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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
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"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
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"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
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"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
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"Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory."
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"I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various."
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"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever."
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