He who is last had best laugh.
GORE VIDALSome have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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 never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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I hate nobody.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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