“He had a personality that was hopeless. He had a profound distrust of people's possibilities, and it came out in his personality. … There was an almost indecent pleasure he took in being sentimental about all the worst things.”
On Richard Nixon
Interview for French TV (1998)
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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m… 1923–2007Related quotes

“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady

"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (1965)
Context: Now he had form and substance.
He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles — middle-class circles — it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
Quoted in "Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny" - Page 240 - by Edward Crankshaw - History - 1956


A.V.H. Hartendorp “Don Pañong – Genius" in Philippine Magazine (September 1929).
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