Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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Love is not my bag.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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