Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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