“Our anti-Communism came to us neither as the fruit of a special wisdom nor as a humiliating awakening from a prolonged deception, but as a natural event, the product of chance and propinquity. One thing followed another, and the will had little to say about it. For my part, during that year, I realized, with a certain wistfulness, that it was too late for me to become any kind of Marxist. Marxism, I saw, from the learned young man I listened to at Committee meetings, was something you had to take up young, like ballet dancing.”
"My Confession", p. 102
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
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1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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1940's
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just doesn't cut it….
DragonCon, 2000
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Of Superstition
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)