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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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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I hate nobody.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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.
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