Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALThe 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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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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I hate nobody.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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