Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I can understand companionship.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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