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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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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Colony Mass Rebel War
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

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