Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
GORE VIDALIt is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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