I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDALHe who is last had best laugh.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Love is not my bag.
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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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