It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Love is not my bag.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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