Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALThe 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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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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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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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Love is not my bag.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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I can understand companionship.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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I am only at home in the present.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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