Adam Clymer quotes
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“When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.”
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“I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.”
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“Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.”
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“There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.”
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“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”
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“Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”
-- Adam Clymer
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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“Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.”
Source : A.J. Hartley, David Hewson (2014). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel”, p.52
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK
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