I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
GORE VIDALThere is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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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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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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