Does one ever read a politician’s books?
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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