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Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.
Join the room“Immediately seek shelter in the closest office. Remain quiet and await further directions.”
“Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.”
“If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.”
“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
“This is truly the capital... And the capital of the most important nation in the world—so there is more protocol here... If you want to know who next U.S. president will be, you cannot stay within the beltway... I always tell my staff that this is a big country with a history.”
“We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability. History doesn’t do that in Hong Kong, or in Moscow, or in Washington or New York City or Los Angeles. History goes where we push it. And if we don’t push, someone else will.”
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Washington, D.C. é um romance de 1967 de Gore Vidal. O sexto romance de sua série Narratives of Empire de romances históricos, ele começa em 1937 e continua até a Guerra Fria, acompanhando as famílias do senador James Burden Day e do influente editor de jornal Blaise Sanford. Este livro é o menos histórico dos sete livros. O sétimo livro da série, The Golden Age, se passa durante o mesmo período de anos com muitos dos mesmos personagens de Washington, D.C. O romance é escrito em terceira pessoa e é inspirado nos romances de Henry James.
