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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.

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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.

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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations.

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My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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