Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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