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" Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing. "

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" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

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" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. "

" For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. "

" I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. "

" I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "

" That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. "

" It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. "

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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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