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" 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. "

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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

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

" I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. "

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" For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down. "

" 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. "

" My father had lifelong contempt for politicians. "

" Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. "

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" 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. "

" The United States is a madhouse. "

" Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. "

" 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. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

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" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

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" Love is not my bag. "

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" Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. "