The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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I 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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