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My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Announced Butter Cap Dad Day Earth Face Found Had He His Ideal Jar Life Look One Day Paradise Peanut Peanut Butter Platonic Quest Red Remember True Utter Wing Yellow I Remember

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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Belly Cerebral Go Particularly Writer

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You live vicariously through your characters.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Characters Live Through Vicariously You Your

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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Before Fiction Me Night Protracted Said Saying Sort Things Way Wished

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The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Acid Gives Me Palin President Sarah Sarah Palin Thought

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In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Disaster Every Like Live Look Made Misunderstood Public Public Relations Reality Relations Triumph You

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I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Also Been Decade Living Look Make Next Nice Only Paint Past Room Warned Will You

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I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Canal Crow Entered Higher Inside Lock Misty Nest Panama Remember Rose Sensation Ship Standing Strange I Remember

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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Clear Deficit Dinner Dinner Table Inevitable Less Like Moaning Reckoning Seconds Table Than I Can

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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Administration Deficit Early House Off Reagan Really Rocket Started Take Time White White House Worked

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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