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" There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. "

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" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

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" Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. "

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" 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. "

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

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

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" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' "

" 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. "

" I am only at home in the present. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after. "

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

" The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. "

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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. "

" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "

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