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“ They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ”

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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

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Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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