For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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I can understand companionship.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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