TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALUntil 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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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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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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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