The media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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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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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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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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