The unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALThe more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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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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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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 was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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