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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" 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. "

" We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. "

" Every country should have at least one King Farouk. "

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

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

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

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" 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. "

" The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted. "

" I am not, at heart, a playwright. "

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" An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. "

" 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. "

" I know a lot of the Annapolis breed. "

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

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

" In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders. "

" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "

" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

" I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted. "

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

" As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use. "

" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

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" We're not a democracy. "

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" The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. "

" Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. "

" By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm. "

" What I like least about myself is my belligerence. "

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