His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.
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There are too many ironies in the fire.John Leonard
We have fashioned a style for accommodating our guilt, for eating statistics. We haven't yet been able, and hopefully never will be, to posture successfully in front of a real person.
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He was one lucky guy because he got to come to work everyday and be with his family. (His daughter) managed his practice in this building that we're in and his two sons also operated their practice out of this building.
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Television is a corporate vulgarity.
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He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long.
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In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
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