Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDALI think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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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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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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