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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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Choice

Democracy

Feeling

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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Time

Man

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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American

President

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

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Genius

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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World

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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Children

Parents

A good deed never goes unpunished.

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Deed

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.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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Audiences

Writers

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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Business

Faith