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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."
"Ambition is greed without makeup."
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."
"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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