Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
GORE VIDALEvery country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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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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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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