The unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALWe are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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