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.
GORE VIDALSince 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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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I hate nobody.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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