Does one ever read a politician’s books?
GORE VIDALHistory is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Love is not my bag.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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