What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
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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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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Love is not my bag.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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