I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALBy the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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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 first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I am only at home in the present.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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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