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"In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything."
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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
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"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum."
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"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand."
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"The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral."
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"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."
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"Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party."
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"The Republican Party is not inclusive."
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"If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China."
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"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear."
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"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party."
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"This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over."
Identity
"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."
Death
"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."
Fiction
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man
"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
Work
"Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself."
Time
"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
Location
"It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years."
Family
"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."
Fun
"In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything."
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