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That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
Valuing time with your family does not mean you've lost your ambition. Define success for yourself.
You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.
Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.
The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem
Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.
It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.