The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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