Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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