#elf

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. ↗

— David Frum

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I don't consider myself to be that credulous. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#credulous #i #myself

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #home #i #like #myself

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#does #itself #others #states #understand

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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