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GORE VIDALThe unfed mind devours itself.
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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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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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