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Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
Howard Fast / Novelist
Arrogance
Nerves
Yiddish
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The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Inspiring
Jobs
Dignity
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Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Age
People
Suffering
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A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Distance
Mountain
Stills
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The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Marvelous
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A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Battle
Man Will Who
Stood
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Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Kids
Chance
Growing Up
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Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Thoughtful
People Who Watch
Thoughtful People
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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Yesterday
No Sense
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In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Cheating
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Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Religion
Doctrine
Scripture
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The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Lifetime
Unwritten
Me More I Can
The Only Thing
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The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Frenzy
Hysteria
Matched
Exuberant
Orchestrated
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It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Runs
Sold
Untold
Widely
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I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
Howard Fast / Novelist
Men
Mother
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My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Communist
Communist Party
Attacked
Party Line
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I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Achievement
Human Race
United States Of America
Noblest
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I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Communism
Cynic
Disenchanted
Peanut Butter
Butter
Peanut
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To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Unusual
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A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Religion
Critics
Harem
Priests
Watches
Critic
Writers
Failed
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And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Buddhist
Catholic
Promise
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I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Congress
Contempt
House
Months
Prison
Request
Three
Virginia
West
West Virginia
Activities
Committee
Comply
Federal
Refusing
Un-American
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I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Bloody
Reasonable
Revolution
Socialism
Working Class
Forces
Market Forces
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I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Communism
Destroyed
Enlightenment
Reaching
Socialism
Soviet
Soviet Union
Certain Degree
Practices
Union
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Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Causes
Endless
Matched
Philosophical
Point Of View
Life Myself Believe
Aspects
Unpopular
Depleted
Enriched
Wed
Willingly
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After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.
Howard Fast / Novelist
Civil War
Sympathetic
Bought
Convent
Hospital
Refugees
Spanish
Well-To-Do
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