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He who is last had best laugh.

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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

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Corporations must pay tax.

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The media can't get anything straight.

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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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I can understand companionship.

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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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