“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… 1923–2007

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