They want to know a lot about sex, but I don't think all their questions are being answered. That's where I come in. ... I tell them, 'Please ask me.' There is no such thing as a silly or stupid question.

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That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate

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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

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