What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALBoys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Love is not my bag.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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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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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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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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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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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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