I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
GORE VIDALI’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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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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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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