My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
GORE VIDALEvery country should have at least one King Farouk.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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