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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.

Gore Vidal

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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Election Force Yourself
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
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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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself

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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