Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALSince 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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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The United States is a madhouse.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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