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Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed. "

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David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

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There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

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I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

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I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

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An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

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