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It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

~Christopher Buckley

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As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Been Bit Building Eight Financial Forbes Gold Know Little Little Bit Rate Soak Stuff Up Working World Years You

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The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Came Comic First Form House Memoir Mess Novel Out Parody White White House Wrote

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I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'

~Christopher Buckley

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I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Anyone Dead Living Love Oscar Oscar Wilde Still Wilde Writer I Love

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Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

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Topics: Boundaries Cross Geographical Ideological

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The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

~Christopher Buckley

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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Endured First Fresh Generation Largely Laugh Madness Provided Readers Take Terror Them Through War Were World World War World War Ii

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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Because Deathbed Forgive Forgive Me Hope Lot Me People

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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.

~Christopher Buckley

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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