Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL
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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 the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Love is not my bag.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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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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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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