American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.


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You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to hel...
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I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion.
"I beg your pardon?" ...
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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...
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But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they ...
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That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak ...
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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
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Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey...
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Did you see more glass?
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You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
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Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
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You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know w...
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She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
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He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
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We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
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Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
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If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
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People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
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Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
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It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
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I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
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I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
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Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
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Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
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She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
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You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
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Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
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-Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
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