I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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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.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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.’
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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