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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.

Gore Vidal

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
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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Colony Mass Rebel War
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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Baseball Play Slow Sports
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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