Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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