American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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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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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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