It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
GORE VIDALHalf 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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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I hate nobody.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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