I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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 am only at home in the present.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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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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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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