Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALThere is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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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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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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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 was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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