TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALI never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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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.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I am only at home in the present.
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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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