American - Novelist | November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
Howard Fast
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A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
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Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
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I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
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To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
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Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
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I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.
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My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
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I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
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In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
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