I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDALMy father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Love is not my bag.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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I hate nobody.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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