American - Author | May 22, 1934 -
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
Garry Wills
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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