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Quotes by Editor
"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed."
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"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
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"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
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"I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die."
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"Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate."
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"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
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"People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true."
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"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
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"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."
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"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."
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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition."
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"You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy."
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"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
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"God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars."
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"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
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"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists."
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"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals."
Life,
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"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
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"In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."
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