When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?
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Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
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Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd that job?
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Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no
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