I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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