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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

At night, I don't do business meetings, because I think it sends the wrong message. I do dinner with friends, game night, or concerts.

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