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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"The writer works in a lonely way."
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"A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor."
Being
"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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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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"Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing."
Literature
"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."
Body
"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
Life
"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
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