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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.

Gore Vidal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known 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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself

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