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"Writers are always selling somebody out."
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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."
"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."
"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
"What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one place had been so attenuated."
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
"I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost."
"More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living."
"I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing."
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