The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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