American - Novelist | September 28, 1952 -
I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.
Christopher Buckley
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Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.
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Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
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Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
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I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
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It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
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Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
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Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
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Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.
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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
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