American - Novelist | May 25, 1932 - December 30, 2003
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
John Gregory Dunne
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The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering - or of encouraging their children to do so.
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For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinct finds its most insistent voice, what Robert Kagan calls the military 'career path' is not widely seen as a plausible future. Pulling a trigger is what Jose, Tyrone, and Bubba do, not early admission students at the better private universities.
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
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A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
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Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
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I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.
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I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.
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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.
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Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It can be interesting - if you have another outlet.
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