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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"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."

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."


"I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone."


"The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after."


"It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman."
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