A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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