The 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.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I can understand companionship.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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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.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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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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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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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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