TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALThe behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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