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.
GORE VIDALAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I’m always an optimist!
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I hate nobody.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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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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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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