The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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