"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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"Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.“
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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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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
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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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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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