This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

177

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

160

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

156

I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer.

148

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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