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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless."
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