In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
GORE VIDALI can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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