I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALYou 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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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