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Christopher Buckley Quotes

American - Novelist | September 28, 1952 -

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

Christopher Buckley

Mother Hospital Month Terrible After

I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

Christopher Buckley

Life Rest Story My Life Want Write

If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'

Christopher Buckley

Wish Year You Thirty Write Question

I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

Christopher Buckley

Spiritual Think Country She Years

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

Christopher Buckley

Me Letters Write Over Years Driven

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

Christopher Buckley

Blessing Child Only Child Advantage

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Christopher Buckley

Parents You Glamorous Left Remove

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

Christopher Buckley

Yourself Think Odd Orphan

If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

Christopher Buckley

Son Win Think Literature Say Dead

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

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Speech Him Known Since Personally

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

Christopher Buckley

I Am Conservative Idea Who Balanced

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

Christopher Buckley

Friend Government Believe Enough You

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