Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
From Gore Vidal
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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.
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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