As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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