Vernon A. Walters quotes
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“It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.”
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“Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.”
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“The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.”
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“I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.”
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“For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .”
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“I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.”
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“I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.”
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“It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.”
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“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.”
Source : Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far”
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