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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Gore Vidal

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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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public

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