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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
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If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
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If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
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In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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