The United States is a madhouse.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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