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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Gore Vidal

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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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Death Forever Human Race
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
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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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise

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