Birth Quote by Alistair Cooke

“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.” quote by Alistair Cooke — Download Open image

“Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.”

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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national…

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“Every sport pretends to be literature. . .”

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To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to…

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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in…

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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it

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Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

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