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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.

Gore Vidal

Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
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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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
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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Democracy Party Politics Republic
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing

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