"You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”
“I thought for a while, Barack Obama, although he wanted comprehensive reform had less a good chance of getting it than Donald Trump because of the Nixon goes to China factor here, where Trump can secure the border and get people on board, I think he could see comprehensive reform. Not this year, but maybe next year.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.”
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”
“In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.”
“I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee.”
“The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.”

Source : San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, November 18, 1975.
“Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.”

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