"The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist."

-- Mary McCarthy

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“An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid”
“Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.”
“When CNN launched in the early 1980s, everybody said: A 24-hour news network won't work. They launched, they did ok, CNN went almost bankrupt because of the risks they had taken, they got bailed out, and 25 years later CNN is a huge global brand. I think the same is going to happen in digital. If you look at the younger generation, there is a huge consumption of digital media and almost no consumption of print or traditional television. Eventually money will follow that. It is just a question of which companies win, how long it takes to get there and what kind of model you need to apply.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.”
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.”

Source : "South Carolina Democratic Chair On How Candidates Can Appeal To Black Voters". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.
“I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.”
“Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.”
“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”

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