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.
GORE VIDALThe four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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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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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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