I can understand companionship.
GORE VIDALApparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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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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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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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We’re not a democracy.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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