"In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development."

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Source : Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.11, Vintage

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“That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.”
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
“I'm not even sure If I'm awake now.”
“My heart had a crush on him from the moment we met, but it was faint, and the rest of me stubbornly refused to play along.”
“My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.”

Source : "Questions & Answers: A Conversation With Louis Begley". Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
“I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

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