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Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.

Molly Ivins
Sorry, Heart, Swim
Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.118, Vintage

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

Molly Ivins
Funny, Suicide, Mind

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

Molly Ivins
Humor, Thinking, Looks
"Ivins: Stand up against the surge" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2007.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

Molly Ivins
Thinking, Characteristics, Mankind

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

Molly Ivins
Fighting, Justice, Fighting For Freedom

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

Molly Ivins
Brain

In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

Molly Ivins
Cities, Bars, Paper
Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.235, Vintage

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

Molly Ivins
Pigs, Fats, Hog

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins
Serious, Easier, Found

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins
Texas, Saws

Of course, it has never paid much.

Molly Ivins
History, Courses, Paid
Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose (2002). “Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush”, p.10, Vintage

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