Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
GORE VIDALEach youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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 is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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