TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALThink of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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