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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
Work
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
Money
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
Writing
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
Beauty
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
Hope
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
Life
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
Time
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."
Life
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
Environment
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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