The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
GORE VIDALA narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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