Ocupation: Novelist
Life: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
Birthday: October 22
Death: November 17
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
source: "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.
topic: Party, Reality, People, Moral Superiority, Third Parties, Political Movements, Oversimplification