There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
GORE VIDALHe who is last had best laugh.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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I hate nobody.
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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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