"What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other."

-- Grace Paley

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“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail”
“If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.”
“A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.”
“Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.”

Source : "Approaches to Writing". Book by Paul Horgan, No. 398, 1973.
“I would run through brick walls for Spurs.”
“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.”
“If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.”
“It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.”

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