You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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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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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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I’m always an optimist!
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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