What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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We’re not a democracy.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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