Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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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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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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