The media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALIt’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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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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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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