I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALIt is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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 never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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