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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

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I have no literary fears.

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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

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