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Saul Bellow
: Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
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I suppose more than anything else I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. They know that life is not just a popularity contest.
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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P J O Rourke :
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Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about character issues. Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
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The President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy.
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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James Mackintosh :
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Whatever is popular deserves attention.
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
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