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I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

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Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

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I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

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If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

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Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

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I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

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I have been fighting over commas all my life.

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'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

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One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 28th, 1947

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