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.
GORE VIDALOf 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.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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