TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALI don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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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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I’m always an optimist!
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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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 media can’t get anything straight.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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