I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALWe’re not a democracy.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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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 corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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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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