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“Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.”

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The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens…

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After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing…

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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White…

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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

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When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

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Serious journalism need not be solemn.

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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

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