Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
GORE VIDALNever have children, only grandchildren.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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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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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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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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