The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
GORE VIDALThe Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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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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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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We’re not a democracy.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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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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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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