All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALAll in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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