American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I can understand companionship.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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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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