My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I am only at home in the present.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I hate nobody.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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