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GORE VIDALIn character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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I am only at home in the present.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Love is not my bag.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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