A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDALLitigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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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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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I am only at home in the present.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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