At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDALIt is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I can understand companionship.
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I’m always an optimist!
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