William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
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It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!
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There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
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When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
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I have lit my treasured candles, one by one, to hallow this night. With you, who do not come, I wait the birth of the year. Dear God! the flame has drowned in crystal, and the wine, like poison, burns Old malice bites the air, old ravings rave again, though the hour has not yet struck.
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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
