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" Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things. "

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" I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. "

" 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. "

" The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

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

" Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. "

" 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. "

" As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

" He who is last had best laugh. "

" The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative. "

" The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. "

" There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. "

" To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. "

" 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. "

" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "