As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
GORE VIDALThe United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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We’re not a democracy.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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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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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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