I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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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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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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