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Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

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The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

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Gossip is conversation about people.

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It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.

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I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

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To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 3rd, 1925

Died: July 31st, 2012

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