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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Gore Vidal

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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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
You 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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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion

Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

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