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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."
"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."
"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."
"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."
"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
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