There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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