TV news is not very instructive.
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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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