The media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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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 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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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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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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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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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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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