Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
GORE VIDALFifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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