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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
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The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
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The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does not understand journalism. The problem is not that the average reporter does not understand what it is that's necessary to make the payroll, to make the good edifice, to make the thing that he wants. It is that in fact those who control too many of the edifices have actually come to believe that Wall Street has wisdom, and that that wisdom should instruct our business.
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Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
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Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.
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As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.
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Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
