Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDALThe behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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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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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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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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