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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
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When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
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A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
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Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.
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Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
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There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
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The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
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New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
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In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
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Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
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Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.
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You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
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A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
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Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
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Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.
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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
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Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
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I've had an unhappy life, thank God.
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Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
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I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.
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Serious journalism need not be solemn.
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