"I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed."
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"Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives."
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"People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them."
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"I've written three books you could think of as memoirs."
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"I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious."
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"Everybody is who he was in high school."
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"The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher."
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"Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes."
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"You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'"
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"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."
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"Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist."
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"Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly."
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"Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting."
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"Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then."
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"Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food."
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"There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating."
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"If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?"
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"Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy."
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"Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?"
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"Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States."
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