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" As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. "

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" Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery. "

" 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. "

" The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. "

" Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?' "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

" A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive. "

" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "

" Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. "

" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. "

" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "