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With 'Fellow Travelers,' I think I was consciously trying to imagine what my own life as a gay man might have been like if I'd been born exactly 20 years earlier.
- Thomas Mallon
#Born
#Gay
#Life
#Man
#Trying
I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.
- Thomas Mallon
#Believe
#First
#He
#Never
#Place
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
- Thomas Mallon
#Dirty
#Done
#Green
#Light
#Solar
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
- Thomas Mallon
#Come
#Fiction
#Romantic
#Science
#Solar
Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around.
- Thomas Mallon
#Hot
#Life
#Stars
#Travel
#Universe
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.
- Thomas Mallon
#Contentment
#Feet
#New
#Old
#Outside
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.
- Thomas Mallon
#Bank
#Father
#He
#House
#Opposition
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
- Thomas Mallon
#American
#Personality
#Student
#Surprise
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.
- Thomas Mallon
#Business
#Government
#Nation
#Thought
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
- Thomas Mallon
#Always
#Coming
#Distance
#Time
#Well
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.
- Thomas Mallon
#Good
#Mine
#Stay
#Way
#Writing
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.
- Thomas Mallon
#Doing
#Negotiation
#Russia
#Way
#Win
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.
- Thomas Mallon
#Game
#Logic
#Poor
#Radio
#Solar
The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.
- Thomas Mallon
#Feel
#Good
#Late
#See
#Sympathy
I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.
- Thomas Mallon
#Believe
#Duty
#Easter
#God
#Myself
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