What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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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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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Since 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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I can understand companionship.
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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.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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 not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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Nearly 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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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