Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALBetween fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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