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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Gore Vidal

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race

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