Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALSince 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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I can understand companionship.
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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 was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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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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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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