What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I can understand companionship.
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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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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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