I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALThere’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I am only at home in the present.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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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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Corporations must pay tax.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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