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.
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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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 could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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