Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I hate nobody.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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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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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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