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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner

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