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"Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict."
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"I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot."
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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
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"Well," he said. "I hope to God I never make forty -- I wouldn't know what to do with myself."
Life
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
Politics
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
Truth
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
People
"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."
History
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
Food
"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
Man
"A word to the wise is infuriating."
Communication
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
God
"Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again."
Nature
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