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I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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New York City
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William Lewis Safire
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A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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Create your own constituency of the infuriated.
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
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English is a stretch language one size fits all.
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
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One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
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I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'
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No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
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Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
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To communicate, put your words in order give them a purpose use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
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A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
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