"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head."
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"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
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"The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself."
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"The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt."
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"If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized."
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"Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers."
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"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
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"Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all."
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"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults."
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"We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean."
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"Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy.""
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"Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one."
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"History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true."
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"We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"A good deed never goes unpunished."
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"The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes."
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"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
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"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."
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