I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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