A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDALHistory is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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