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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
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can only write about what bites you.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.