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.
GORE VIDALI am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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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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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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