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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.