The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
GORE VIDALThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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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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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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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.
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I’m always an optimist!
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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