Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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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.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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