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| Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. |
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| He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence, |
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| He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist. |
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| He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices |
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| I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. |
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| I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims." |
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| I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club. |
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| I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people. |
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| I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery. |
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| I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. |
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| I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults |
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| If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief. |
| America and Americans; Men and Women |
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| In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. |
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| In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. |
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| It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of |
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| It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create ''one world.'' Instead of one world, we have ''star wars,'' and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead. |
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| It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true |
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