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.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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I am only at home in the present.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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