Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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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 am only at home in the present.
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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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