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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand

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