I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Baseball 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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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