Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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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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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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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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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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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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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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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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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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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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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