Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
GORE VIDALThe truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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I hate nobody.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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