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.
GORE VIDALBoys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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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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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I hate nobody.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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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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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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