Howard Fast

Notable Quotes



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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I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

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The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

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It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

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The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

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I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

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