It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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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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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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Love is not my bag.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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I can understand companionship.
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