Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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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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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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