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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.

Gore Vidal

It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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

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