Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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In 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 can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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