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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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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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 don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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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I’m always an optimist!
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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