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"I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent."
"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge."
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"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."
"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."
"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."
"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."
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