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The term most people use to describe Lewis is patrician, and he does have that air. He's very much part of a social network. He does know a wide range of people in the upper orders. That's why I think he has a lot of fun with his left-leaning views.

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The New York Times bestseller list only has four categories. There ought to be a fifth category for autobiography. Or perhaps we should call it handicapped nonfiction.

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worked so far out beyond the frontiers of conventional studio art that they have no names themselves for the forms they create.

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America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

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It taught me a lesson, ... You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

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Kenny Smith and I started working on a grant after Ivan. We finally got it and now we are ready for the worst. We never lost water after Ivan, but it got close. It made me real nervous.

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In this country, there's nothing daring about going against the government.

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I think it's the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It's astounding to me how many people are interested in stock car racing.

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Radical chic.

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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

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It was a scary situation. I don't know why it (house) didn't explode with the car on top of the gas meter. The meter on the house was disintegrated.

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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

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Natural gas is not as dangerous when it is out in the open. But when it gets trapped, like it did in the house, you've got a potential bomb.

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Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.

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Ed Doctorow is a great guy, a wonderful writer, great company - he's just being fashionable, that's all. In this country, there's nothing daring about going against the government.

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We really believe that we can continue to separate ourselves as a company and deliver a different level of service by being closer to our dealers in the marketplaces.

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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many three hundred, four hundred, five hundred had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

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He is politically a real maverick. It's very idiosyncratic, and I mean that in a good way.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

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To a man of sixty... one of the grimmest reminders of the Reaper's approach comes when his doctors, the people who have attended to his body for decades, begin retiring on him... or dying on him... or both.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 130th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

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