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"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me."

"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."

"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."

"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."
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