Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDALOf all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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.
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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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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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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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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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