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.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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