I am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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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 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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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