History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDALSome of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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