The media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALThe first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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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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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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