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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

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Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.

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Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

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The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

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For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

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New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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