I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
GORE VIDALThe 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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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