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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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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 time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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