I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALThe more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Love is not my bag.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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