I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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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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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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