I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALBy the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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I hate nobody.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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