Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon,… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which is why, in an era of gaudy and gifted media, evil may vastly magnify its damage by… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness...” — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
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