In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
GORE VIDALI 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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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I’m always an optimist!
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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I am only at home in the present.
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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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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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I hate nobody.
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