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I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.
Nat Hentoff
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Nat Hentoff
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 10
Died: 2017
Died: January 7
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I read like everybody - like every other writer.
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I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
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I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].
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The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.
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My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.
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Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip [of Jules Feiffer]. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.
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What we have now in America is a surveillance society.
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Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.
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[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
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There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.
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We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.
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I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
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Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
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The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
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The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.
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