I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I’m always an optimist!
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Fifty 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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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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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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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