That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
GORE VIDALAfter adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I can understand companionship.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Love is not my bag.
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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