Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALIn 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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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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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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We’re not a democracy.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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