The United States is a madhouse.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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I’m always an optimist!
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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