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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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We're not a democracy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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