The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Love is not my bag.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I hate nobody.
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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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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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