By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
GORE VIDALI am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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