Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALIn essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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