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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
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"I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
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"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"I'm not in the judgment part of journalism."
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"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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