Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDALWrite something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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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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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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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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We’re not a democracy.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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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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