It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALThe 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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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I can understand companionship.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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