I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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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.
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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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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Love is not my bag.
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We’re not a democracy.
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