What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALMy father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Europe 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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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