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Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Despairing Driven Had Her Letters Me Mum Occasionally Over Serial Write Years

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I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Absolutely Advantage Blessing Child Every Had Only Only Child Who

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There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Element Glamorous Left Neither Other Parents Remove You

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If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Christopher Dead Expect Fairly Going Happen Headline Literature Nobel Nobel Prize Obituary Prize Read Safe Say Son Still Think Were Which William Win Would I Think

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I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Him John John Mccain Known Mccain Personally Since Speech Wrote

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I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Am Balanced Budgets Conservative Idea Ought Who I Am

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Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Bipartisanship Mother Necessity

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I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Left Me Party Republican Republican Party

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Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Austin Big Civic Dad Deals Derby Grew Guests He Her Horses Kentucky Leaders Married Mother Parents Reception She Taylor Thousand Up Vancouver Were

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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Better Bit Far Just Little Little Bit Make Reach Sometimes Story Tell Too You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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