Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
GORE VIDALBaseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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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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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I am only at home in the present.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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