Art Buchwald Quotes - Page 2

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• The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

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  Son, Doors, House

  Art Buchwald (1986). “"You can fool all of the people all the time"”, Fawcett Books

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• I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

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  Home, Marine, Youth

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

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  Eight, President, Rosemary

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• Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

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  Food, Dinner, Way

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• As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.

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  Get Better, Economy

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• People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

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  Humor, People, Trying

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

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  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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• I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.

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  Future, People, Doe

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• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

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  Thinking, Stupidity, Television

  Art Buchwald (1968). “Have I ever lied to you?”

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• I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

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  Want, Aging, Castro

  "Art Buchwald, 1925-2007" by Patricia Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.

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• Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

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  Real, Media, Play

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• People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him.

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  Dope, Men, People

  "Have I Ever Lied to You?". Book by Art Buchwald, 1968.

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• When I got to the hospice I was under the impression it would be a two- or three-week stay. But here I still am, six weeks later, and I've gotten so well Medicare won't pay for me anymore.

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  Health, Two, Would Be

  "The Man Who Would Not Die". "Having a High Time Where You'd Least Expect It" by Art Buchwald, www.washingtonpost.com. March 7, 2006.

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• I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

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  Writing, Fighting, Wife

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• I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

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  Suicide, New York, Bipolar

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

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  Inspirational, Laughter, Laughing

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• The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

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  Food, Water, Cooking

  New York Herald Tribune, December 29, 1960.

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• I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

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  Marine, Stripes, Unhappy

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again.

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  Golf, Play, Ivy

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• On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

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  Morning, Alive, Happy To Be Alive

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• No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

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  Country, War, Fighting

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

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  United States, Statistics, Buffalo

  Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”

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• Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

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  Running, Tests, Doe

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• When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

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  Writing, Wine, Funny Wine

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• Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

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  Horse, People, World

  Art Buchwald (1957). “The Brave Coward”

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