Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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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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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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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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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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Love is not my bag.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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