Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALOf all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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