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" Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude. "

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" Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. "

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" In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me. "

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" I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me. "

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" Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. "

" I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies. "

" I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad. "

" I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic. "

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable. "

" My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. "

" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "

" Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp. "

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. "

" I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change. "

" I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. "

" How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. "

" The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness. "

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" I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. "

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" Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends. "

" I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff. "

" You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. "

" The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails! "

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