Recently Henry Kissinger told me he felt that Nixon had always hated the Post. Henry said of Nixon, “He was convinced that the Post had it in for him. At what point he got that idea, I don’t know, but when I met him, he already had that
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“The straw that breaks the camel's back always looks light enough, until it lands.”
― Meddling Kids
― Meddling Kids
“Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.”
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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“The questions you framed are unanswerable, and to be terrified by that is a sign not of weakness but of strength. A weak person wouldn’t have opened his mind to such terror.”
― Children of the Star
― Children of the Star
“When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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