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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Education Leisure Liberal Liberal Education
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Abortion Morally Person Physically
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Corrections Cross Difficulty Hand
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Because Excellent Find Followed
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Alike Always Answers Ask
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Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Cannot Day Every Every Day
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

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Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

Ally Borders Country He
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Add Appeared Art Attempt
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Because Believe Book Change
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The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

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My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

City Encourages Logic Madness
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I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Channel Feel I Feel I Think
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I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

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He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

Blow He Take Would
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You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

People Problem See You
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You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Cooking Got Had Know
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You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

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That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.

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Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
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So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

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Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

Big Hearts Obviously People
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I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Always Authentic Authentic Self Self
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

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I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

About Announce Blow Calling
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I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Badger Beg Call Everyone
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But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Dinner Enjoy Hour I Think
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But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.

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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.

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And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

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And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

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