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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Gore Vidal

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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
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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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
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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God Graduation Known Yourself
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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Money Talk Tax Time
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing

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