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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.


Finley Peter Dunne

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JOHN GREGORY DUNNE What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, b...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobil...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded ve...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Evading military service has a long history in American life.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlist...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who w...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for y...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not fo...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. Th...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no o...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left ...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinc...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
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