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What is this televisual mastery of Reagan's? It is a celebration of good intentions and unexceptional abilities. His style is one of hammy self-effacement, a wry dismay at his own limited talents and their drastic elevation.

— Martin Amis The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)

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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

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Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

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