American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I hate nobody.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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