There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALIn 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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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I can understand companionship.
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