I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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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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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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