A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
GORE VIDALI was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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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.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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