By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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I hate nobody.
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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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