"George Orwell, Artist" (1972), p. 46
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“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”
"Men's Women, Women's Men" (1971), p. 137
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They lose all interest in the bridge.
"The Art of Reviewing" (1973), p. 10
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"Baseball Was Very, Very Good to Him," The New York Times (2000-10-29)
"Church," p. 120
Essays in Disguise (1990)
In Love with Daylight (1995)
"Program Notes," pp. xvi-xvii
Essays in Disguise (1990)
“The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion.”
"The Wit of George S. Kaufman and Dorothy Parker," p. 162
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"Writers' Politics" (1971), p. 66
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"Ernest Hemingway" (1977), p. 240
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"Now That Men Can Cry...," p. 299
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"The Aesthetics of Politics," p. 156
Essays in Disguise (1990)
"Letters of E. B. White" (1976), p. 251
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“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”
"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil" (1972), p. 223
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"Miss Jean Stafford," p. 71
Essays in Disguise (1990)
From the foreword to Clemente! (1973) by Kal Wagenheim
“A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism.”
"Miss Jean Stafford," p. 71
Essays in Disguise (1990)
"Dirty Business" (1973), p. 83
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“Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year”
because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing
"Dirty Business" (1973), p. 83
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