The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDALSex 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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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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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I’m always an optimist!
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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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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