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I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'

~Christopher Buckley

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At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.

~Christopher Buckley

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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

~Christopher Buckley

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It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

~Christopher Buckley

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Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.

~Christopher Buckley

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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

~Christopher Buckley

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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.

~Christopher Buckley

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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

~Christopher Buckley

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Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.

~Christopher Buckley

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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.

~Christopher Buckley

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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