We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
GORE VIDALNearly 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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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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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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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