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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law a...more

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Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

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Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....T...more

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you i...more

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A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs to ideologies, he turns ...more

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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must ...more

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you ...more

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Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

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I have lived so long within the circle of this book [Tender Is The Night] and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real world does...more

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, ...more

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Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

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My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to ...more

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Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.