Christopher Buckley
Novelist
1952-09-28
Books by Christopher Buckley
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The relic master
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Wet Work
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Quotes by Christopher Buckley
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People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
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People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
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As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
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You live vicariously through your characters.
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Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
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I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.
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My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
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George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
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