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• ‟ 'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

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• ‟ I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

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• ‟ The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter to Latin American correspondent and sent me off to Cuba. Fidel Castro had just come to power. It was a very exciting assignment, but also very serious.

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• ‟ I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

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• ‟ We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

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• ‟ I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

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• ‟ I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

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• ‟ My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

  - Tom Wolfe