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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.

Gore Vidal

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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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Build Meaning Novel Sex
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President

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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