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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
- Optimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always an optimist!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
- Biography
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
- Indifference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate nobody.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
- Creating
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- Nov 07, 2020
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is last had best laugh.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
- Happier
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporations must pay tax.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media can't get anything straight.
- Henry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip is conversation about people.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand companionship.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
- Blind Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
- Grandchildren
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never have children, only grandchildren.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
- Nov 07, 2020
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
- Busyness
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
- Nov 07, 2020
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
- Nov 07, 2020
We're not a democracy.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
- Disqualified
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020