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Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.
Racing is licking your opponent's plate clean before starting on your own
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.
I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
We've got a lot of the meal left to go. Should we move on from the turkey?
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live.
Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
News flash: A girl's girl doesn't try to shame another girl about her age.
I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.