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“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”

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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

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Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

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Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

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I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

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