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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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